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Professor Alex Pentland writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education about how researchers can produce important social insights by analyzing aggregated anonymous data. “Today the new technology of living labs is beginning to give researchers a more complete view of life in all its complexity. It is, I believe, the future of social science,” writes Pentland. 

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