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By Joe Parkinson, Ayla Albayrak and Duncan Mavin in the Wall Street Journal
By Elizabeth Cooney at Harvard Medical School
3. A dozen states are using a smart data center to keep voter information up to date. Meet ERIC.
By the Pew Charitable Trusts on YouTube
4. Deciding to embrace big data is a lot easier than changing your culture to use it well.
By Matt Asay in ReadWrite
5. Fighting malaria is going to take more than just nets.
By Utibe Effiong and Lauretta Ovadje with Andrew Maynard in the Conversation
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