Keeping Tabs on ‘Hate’ Through Google Searches by SciFri published on 2015-12-18T22:10:45Z After events like the recent attacks in San Bernadino and Paris, Islamophobic sentiments tend to increase. Economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz calls Google searches “a confessional box” that can gauge public sentiment on controversial views that polls and surveys can’t always measure. Stephens-Davidowitz explains how this information could be used to monitor hate crimes. Genre Science
