NaN/100 votes#1 - Beat down by Data
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/4/2022
A British warship has its location mysteriously faked when its automated tracking data is compromised, sparking a tense military standoff with Russian forces in the Black Sea. An American teenager is arrested and beaten by police after parking his car in an area determined to be a hotspot for crime by a computer algorithm. A LiDar scan of the Amazon rainforest reveals several strange circular depressions on the jungle floor. An Indian woman has her livelihood destroyed by a cyclone twice in twenty years, but artificial intelligence may just prevent it from happening again.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Rise of the Autonomous Machines
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/2022
Iran's top nuclear scientist is assassinated in a brazen daylight attack that may involve remote controlled weaponry assisted by artificial intelligence. On a quiet night in Arizona, a driverless car is out for a test drive when it fails to recognize a pedestrian in its path. At a famous auction house, a French portrait created by an algorithm goes up for sale, stoking controversy in the art world. In Japan, doctors turn to big data to diagnose a woman's illness when attempted treatments prove ineffective.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Augmented Eternity
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/4/2022
A Detroit man is arrested and dragged away in front of his family as police use facial recognition technology to arrest a suspected thief. Unable to cope with his grief, a Canadian writer creates an AI chat-bot to reconnect with a lost loved one. A London-based stock trader uses algorithms to beat the market at its own game and sets off a chain of events that threatens the stability of the world's financial markets. In Tanzania, African park rangers use new technology to identify and catch illegal hunters.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Bit Con
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/4/2022
The owner of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange dies under mysterious circumstances while on his honeymoon in India, leaving a trail of financial devastation behind. An American woman suffering from a series of painful medical issues is denied access to prescription medication because an algorithm flags her as high risk to abuse drugs. After suffering a stroke and disappearing from the public eye for several weeks, the president of Gabon appears in a video addressing the country's citizens, but his appearance leads some people to believe that all is not as it seems to be. A humble Indian farmer is invited to participate in a program that uses artificial intelligence to improve crop yields.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - The SolarWinds Hack
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/4/2022
The United States government suffers the largest and most intrusive cyberattack in its history and the perpetrators are believed to be a familiar Cold War foe. A young New York City job seeker engages in a series of on camera interviews where an algorithm analyses his every word and gesture to determine his suitability for employment. A Wisconsin man convicted of a petty crime has his plea deal surprisingly overturned by a judge after an algorithm determined that he was at high risk to re-offend. In India, an engineering student specializing in data science sets out to develop an application that uses artificial intelligence to translate sign language into text in real time.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Future Games
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/4/2022
A dominant Spanish badminton player uses technology in an effort to accomplish something that nobody in the sport has ever done before. An American man is wrongfully convicted of a crime based on an inaccurate lie detector test, but advances in AI may prevent this from happening in the future. As a joke, an Indonesian student offers his selfies for sale as non-fungible tokens on an internet marketplace and goes viral, earning him a small fortune in the process. An American speech pathologist teaches her dog to communicate by tapping programmed buttons, leading to a debate about whether or not artificial intelligence can be used to decode animal language.
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The Best Episodes of Secrets of Big Data Season 1
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Technology is the great paradox of the twenty first century. While it's inarguable that it has enhanced certain aspects of our lives, it's hard to...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Super Channel
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Beat down by Data" is the best rated episode of "Secrets of Big Data" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/4/2022. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Rise of the Autonomous Machines".