WikiLeaks data could have predicted insurgency but the military failed to use it

WikiLeaks data could have predicted insurgency but the military failed to use it

“For the first time, we have large data sets from places like Facebook and Twitter that we can analyze with high-powered computers and get meaningful results,” Paulo Shakarian, a computer scientist at the United States Military Academy at West Point, adds to the Times. “Iraq and Afghanistan are the very first conflicts where we have been collecting as much data as we possibly can.”