# Professor Vasant Dhar discusses the role of biases when analyzing big data

1 Faculty News June 5, 2017 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/workday/2017/06/05/5-takeaways-for-the-c-suite-from-2016s-vote-prediction-debacles/#3980acc463de) -- "For important business decisions, 'Ask yourself, "Can I trust my data, or might it have sources of bias?"' said [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a data scientist and professor of information systems at New York University."

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