How Marvel's API Will Change Cultural Criticism

Once again, comic fans are blazing a new path online.Anyone who gets their news online knows data journalists are trying to change cultural criticism. Browse around today and you can see Vox.com explaining the "7 things Kindle highlights tell us about readers," or Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight supposedly proving boy bands are awful, or Slate's explanation of why readers' opinions of a book drop after it wins a prize. But we're still waiting for a transformative voice, the equivalent of Billy Bean outsmarting Major League Baseball's system in 2002 or Nate Silver embarrassing career election prognosticators in 2012.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2014-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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