MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn't just for the tech-inclined -- programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers...and questions...they've never seen before.

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Nathan Matias: "Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society"

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