July 8, 2014
Accessing FDA datasets used to be a slog. Now it's easier, due to an innovative new OpenData initiative.
: General Foundation
July 2, 2014
Data-driven research and innovation is helping improve clinical trials, and by consequence, human life
June 27, 2014
There’s a clear appetite by fans and teams for more data, and it can only lead to a greater understanding of the sports we love.
June 26, 2014
Big Data is just a tool—it can be used for good or ill. Big Data itself is not the enemy.
June 23, 2014
The human body is a data-making machine. From our genetic code to our eating and sleeping habits, everything about us generates troves of information.
June 20, 2014
A recent paper argues that it's possible to strip personal information from data, thus preserving data quality and protecting individual privacy.
June 18, 2014
There is sometimes an unwarranted concern that information produced by the Internet of Things is reducing us to sets of 1s and 0s. The simple truth is data doesn’t work that way.
June 18, 2014
Targeting readers through Big Data is increasingly giving media outlets a way back to profitably compete in a dynamic, digital world.
June 16, 2014
Better data collection and use is already disrupting transportation in a number of ways.
June 13, 2014
As millennials flood urban areas, cities, long plagued by automotive traffic