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Bartering for science: using mobile apps to get research data

  • Written by Olivia Walch, Ph.D. Candidate in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, University of Michigan
imageOpening up mobile apps' data to scholarly researchers.Mobile phone and binary via shutterstock.com

There’s a transaction that happens every time you load a website, send an email, or click “like” on a friend’s post: You get something you want in exchange for some data about your actions and interests. Entire business models...

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