big data, the ‘recency bias’

BBC Future

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There’s a counter-intuitive downside to collecting vast amounts of information.

The trouble with big data? It’s called the ‘recency bias’

There’s a counter-intuitive downside to collecting vast amounts of information about economics and human behaviour: it can mean we ignore the lessons of history.

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big data

NOUN

[MASS NOUN] Computing

Extremely large data sets that may be analysed computationally to reveal patterns,trends, and associations, especially relating to human behaviour and interactions:much IT investment is going towards managing and maintaining big data