Anthony Tockar’s original two Neustar blog posts, ‘Differential
Privacy: The Basics’ and ‘Riding with the Stars: Passenger Privacy
in the NYC Taxicab Dataset’, are worth reading for a more detailed
description of the New York Taxi analysis and its implications
(available from: https://research.neustar.biz). Bit By Bit: Social
Research in the Digital Age by Matthew Salganik (Princeton
University Press, 2018) provides a thoughtful overview of the ethical
and logical issues involved in modern social behaviour research.
Chapter 8
David Sumpter’s book Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google
to Fake News and Filter-bubbles (Bloomsbury, 2018) assesses the
statistical plausibility of claims about online algorithms, with a
particular focus on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Getting to
Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline by Sinead
Walsh and Oliver Johnson (Zed Books, 2018) gives a first-hand
account of the politics, logistics and human cost involved in
responding to the West Africa Ebola epidemic.