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work_rn7p7oodmfhehh3c5w7ukafqum	Jill Lepore	Scientists use big data to sway elections and predict riots - welcome to the 1960s	2020	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2939	243	67	Simulmatics Corporation, founded in New controversial work included simulating elections — just like that allegedly 'pioneered' by Protests against racism in Detroit, Michigan, and many other US cities in 1967 prompted attempts to forecast future demonstrations. Scientists use big data to sway elections and election interference to media manipulation and predictive policing, that I wrote a researchers from MIT, Yale University in New Like Silicon Valley itself, Simulmatics was At MIT, Pool also proposed and headed Project ComCom (short The press called Simulmatics scientists Tribune called the People Machine Kennedy's worked with Pool as well as Lasswell. it became the first data firm to provide realtime computing to a US newspaper, The New a bigger project to use computers to predict Much of this work built on earlier research by Lasswell and Pool, identifying work of predictive policing. "Simulmatics looks like nothing more than a In 1966, Pool described the social sciences 	./cache/work_rn7p7oodmfhehh3c5w7ukafqum.pdf	./txt/work_rn7p7oodmfhehh3c5w7ukafqum.txt