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title: Freakonomics at Google
date: "2005-08-12T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 581
description: I'm highlighting the visit of the Freakonomics authors to Google, where they explored potential insights from the company's massive datasets and discussed their ongoing work analyzing unconventional economic patterns.
keywords: [freakonomics, google, data analysis, economics, steven levitt, stephen dubner]
---

The [authors of Freakonomics visited Google](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/guest-bloggers-those-freakonomics-guys.html), and were asked "What would you do with our data?"

BTW, there is a regular [Freakonomics column on the Times](http://freakonomics.com/times.php).