Data Avengers Save the World

“By working together, teams of scientist, humanist, and engineers can create shared resources of extraordinary power. … Big humanities is waiting to happen.”

[Uncharted, Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michael]

The Avengers make a team fight against the villain. Different heroes/heroines with different special abilities make a great synergy and finally save the world. Against Big Data (it is not the villain but), many researchers in different fields make a team find an important pattern from the data, called the (data-driven) interdisciplinary research.

This interdisciplinary research will give us a better (and unbiased) solution to the complex problems we are facing in the world (e.g. poverty, inequality, health, world peace …). Because these problems are too complex to understand in one direction only, we need various tools in statistics, machine learning, scientific theory, social science, psychology, and economics.

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