Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ (Published 2011)

More than 60 years ago, in his “Foundation” series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science — psychohistory — that combined mathematics and psychology to predict the future. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones

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HPの研究所が twitter のデータを元に映画の興行収入を正確に予測した、という話は面白いな。全体としてはタイトル通り、政府とデータマイニングの話