1. One of the most surprising and interesting things I learned was from Ben Shneiderman about Google's embarrassment and failure with the flu trends. I had never heard of this story before and was extremely interesting to me because I would think that google would have more information to predict flu outbreaks than anyone else as a result of their access to search history. However, google searches actually were detrimental and as such google stopped the project.
https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:HarvardX:1006ac6a:lx_simulation:1