With the advent of "big data," we now can look at massive amounts of information and make reasonably accurate predictions about many things, like traffic flows or a new drug's effectiveness. But now we can also do “small data,” enabling us to treat many things like individuals.
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NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not yet shipped its first package.