Today, the topic is Big Data and analytics. The guys talk about a couple of examples of over-reliance on analytics leading to bad outcomes. The first deals with some high school kids who were accused of cheating because of a plagiarism software program; the second looks at how a major bank may have lost up to $9 billion due to lack of proper controls and blind faith in existing analytic systems.

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