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Toward data-driven transportation policies?

The Ontario transportation sector is shaken by talk of big data. But what questions should we be asking in these times of data-utopia? Conversations about data abound in the transportation industry today. The promise is that the ability to capture and process data will enable transit agencies to manage traffic and congestion in real-time to …

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Who is Big-Tech?

Big Tech refers to the technology companies that dominated global commerce throughout the 2010s, or major technology companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. Rana Foroohar, a global business columnist at the Financial Times, describes what is unique about big tech: “Their business models rely on capturing as much data as possible and tweaking …

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