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The Raw Data podcast opens a conversation about how big data and networked technologies are changing communities, the economy, politics and human behavior.

Stanford faculty, Ashish Goel, has designed an algorithm where voters can design a budget that reflects their priorities as a way of informing politicians about what people really want. 

Instead of waiting months for diagnoses from specialists, children with clear symptoms of autism can now be identified in 7 short questions.

The conference held at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL USA will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g.

Four undergraduates have co-founded CS+Social Good, an organization that  encourages students to use their passion for technology to improve the world around them.

Hackers with access to a person’s genome will be able to see if that genome is in an international network of disease databases. This could be a large privacy issue as they could see who has certain medical conditions, such as heart disease, lung cancer, or autism.

Huge amounts of data on individual patients is changing how medicine is practiced.