Gary King, Harvard Pop Center faculty member, is lead author on a ground-breaking study published in Science that is the result of over five years of work. Learn more about the results of this randomized experiment in The Boston Globe and the Harvard Gazette.
Social Security assets & solvency overestimated, studies find
Two new studies co-authored by faculty member Gary King, PhD, find that the Social Security Administration’s forecasts have been overstating the health of the program since 2000. The studies, one in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the other in the journal Political Analysis, have received media attention in Forbes, Harvard Gazette, CNBC, and HNGN, amongst other outlets.
Gary King looks at Google Flu Trends
Its information-gathering abilities are no doubt impressive, but how good is Google at tracking cases of influenza? Pop Center faculty member Gary King, who recently co-authored a paper critiquing the accuracy of Google Flu Trends. A subsequent New York Times article discussed King’s paper and raised interesting questions about the strengths and limitations of big data.