Big Data New Tricks for Econometrics 计算机科学

Big Data: New Tricks for EconometricsHal R. Varian∗June 2013 Revised: April 14, 2014AbstractNowadays computers are in the middle of most economic transactions.These “computer-mediated transactions” generate huge amounts ofdata, and new tools can be used to manipulate and analyze this data.This essay offers a brief introduction to some of these tools and meth-ods.Computers are now involved in many economic transactions and can cap-ture data associated with these transactions, which can then be ma