Raw Data

Stanford and PRX

We’ve entered a new era. The creation and collection of information play an ever-increasing — yet often hidden — role in our lives. Algorithms filter all sorts of experiences, from the mundane to the monumental. The fuel that powers and curates these experiences is…data. Data are the new oil; whoever controls data has power. Is this making things better? Worse? Raw Data is a show about how information becomes power. What are the implications for all of us, now that mountains of data are more accessible and malleable than ever?

Episodes post on Thursdays. From Stanford and PRX.

Hosted by Andrea Mustain and Mike Osborne.

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S4 · E24
Nov 21, 2019 · 27 min
Technically Sweet
Why does child labor persist in the chocolate industry? Does technology offer the solution?
S4 · E23
Nov 14, 2019 · 17 min
Training Computers to See
How do you teach a computer to distinguish between a cow and a couch? Lots of data.
S4 · E22
Nov 7, 2019 · 19 min
The Worst Cyber Attack (For now)
In June 2017, a mysterious computer worm infected thousands of computers across the world. Who was behind the attack?
Oct 31, 2019 · 24 min
How We Found Ourselves
It took decades of work, billions of dollars, and a fleet of spacecraft.
S4 · E21
Oct 29, 2019 · 29 min
About Us, But Not For Us (Repost)
Tech companies are making billions of dollars off of our data. How did we get here?
S4 · E20
Oct 24, 2019 · 10 min
Prediction (BYTE)
Machines are being used to predict the future. What could go wrong?
S4 · E19
Oct 17, 2019 · 27 min
The Digital Divide
Getting online is a huge problem for more people than you might think.
S4 · E18
Oct 10, 2019 · 12 min
Hacking (BYTE)
From data breaches to ransomware, we hear about hacking everywhere these days. But where does the term “hacking” come from, and what does it even mean?
S4 · E17
Oct 3, 2019 · 18 min
Machine Learning (BYTE)
If the robot apocalypse isn’t around the corner, what is?
S4 · E16
Sep 26, 2019 · 12 min
Memory (BYTE)
What is RAM, and why is memory central for the computing of tomorrow?
S4 · E15
Sep 19, 2019 · 27 min
The Answer Machine
Who knows you best? It’s probably not a person.
S4 · E13
Sep 12, 2019 · 13 min
Algorithms (BYTE)
What is an algorithm? And why do we need them?
S4 · E13
Aug 29, 2019 · 25 min
Your Data Are Showing
Is the loss of privacy in the digital age even greater than we realize?
S4 · E12
Jul 18, 2019 · 31 min
Power from the People (Post Trump, Pre-2020)
The fight over the 2020 census may feel like it came out of left field — but it turns out that battles over the census are as old as the republic itself.
S4 · E11
Jul 11, 2019 · 30 min
Power Lines, Post SCOTUS
Is the United States still a representative democracy?
S4 · E10
Jul 4, 2019 · 19 min
Conspiracy Tyranny
Why are authoritarians around the world gaining power? A new, 21st-century brand of propaganda is at least partly to blame.
S4 · E9
Jun 27, 2019 · 19 min
Kinetic Effects
Turns out, Russia tried to sow chaos in the United States through digital disinformation and disruption long before the 2016 election.
S4 · E8
Jun 20, 2019 · 36 min
Dezinformatsiya
The story behind Russian disinformation efforts we saw in 2016? It’s complicated.
S4 · E7
Jun 6, 2019 · 27 min
Climate and Behavior: Warmer Means Worse
Climate change is already reshaping the natural world, but how does it affect human behavior?
S4 · E6
May 13, 2019 · 27 min
Power Lines
Is the United States still a representative democracy? Thanks to an oft-overlooked partisan weapon — one that’s gotten immensely more powerful, thanks to software and data — the answer is complicated.

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