Weird science and datafication

[...]programming algorithms to identify anomalies or anomalous patterns in data is one way for trading firms not only to backtrack potentially erroneous strategies or external events negatively impacting a trading algorithm's performance but also to anticipate future scenarios. Besides Morelli, the academic notabilities who participated in séances with Palladino also included the physiologist Charles Richet, Pierre and Marie Curie, the (in)famous polymath Gustave Le Bon and, from across the Atlantic, none other than William James. The invitation is instead a call for openness in science practice, which does not mean that we should relax our scientific standards, but rather be critically aware of their impact on our inquiries and the data we expose ourselves to as researchers. the author Kristian Bondo Hansen is an assistant professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. [...]it is well-documented by Blackman, among others, that James' very active involvement with psychic research is seldom mentioned by James scholars or by scholars interested in the foundation of modern psychology. 2 Blackman briefly touches upon the topic of trading in a discussion of Karin Knorr Cetina's and Urs Bruegger's (2002) study of post-social relations between foreignexchange traders and their computer screens [114-117]. references Beckert, J. (2016) Imagined futures: