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On this episode of Modern Notion Daily, our guest is Christian Rudder, a co-founder of the online dating service OkCupid and author of Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity—What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves (Broadway Books, paperback September 2015). Rudder gained some attention when he wrote the OkTrends blog for OkCupid,…

This week we're looking at how powerful computers and massive data sets are changing the we study each other, scientifically and socially. We're joined by machine learning researcher Hanna Wallach, to talk about the definition of "big data," and social science research techniques that use data about individual people to model patterns in human behavior. And we'll speak to Christian Rudder, co-founder of OkCupid and author of the OkTrends blog, about his book "Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)."

Aditya Mukerjee joins us to talk about Big Data, Go, and more. Aditya Mukerjee (@chimeracoder) /var/null OKTrends

Emily May of Hollaback and Amanda Hess of The Washington City Paper on outing harassers online. Plus Salman Kahn’s one man YouTube education empire, and OKTrends crunches the on-line dating numbers.