Hey, remember when the New York Times accused Apple of deliberately obsoleting iPhones? Let’s do that again.
“Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum” (tip o’ the antlers to Ellyn MacNamara).
Writing for the Times, Harvard economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan notes that Laura Trucco, a Ph.D. student in economics at Harvard, checked Google results for “iPhone slow” searches and found they correlated with launches of new phones. This is apparently a thing you can do to get credit toward a Harvard Ph.D.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Reported by Macworld 9 hours ago.
“Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum” (tip o’ the antlers to Ellyn MacNamara).
Writing for the Times, Harvard economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan notes that Laura Trucco, a Ph.D. student in economics at Harvard, checked Google results for “iPhone slow” searches and found they correlated with launches of new phones. This is apparently a thing you can do to get credit toward a Harvard Ph.D.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Reported by Macworld 9 hours ago.