Why Vegetarians Miss Fewer Flights – Five Bizarre Insights from Data

A "Robot Scientist" – Machine learning automates a kind of scientific research It's weird: Vegetarians miss fewer flights. It's wacky: People who like "curly fries" on Facebook are more intelligent. You're traveling through a dimension whose boundaries are that of imagination. Well, it's not really The Twilight Zone, but let's call it "The'Freakonomics' of big data," or "The Ripley's Believe It or Not of data science." We live in a weird and wacky world, full of bizarre and surprising connections, and these connections are reflected within all those tons of data constantly being collected.