Big Data is just a tool—it can be used for good or ill. Big Data itself is not the enemy.
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.
A recent paper argues that it's possible to strip personal information from data, thus preserving data quality and protecting individual privacy.
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.
Targeting readers through Big Data is increasingly giving media outlets a way back to profitably compete in a dynamic, digital world.
Better data collection and use is already disrupting transportation in a number of ways.
As millennials flood urban areas, cities, long plagued by automotive traffic
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation President John McKernan, former governor of Maine, led a panel discussion focusing on the skills gap and the results of the latest Enterprising States study. Governors from Utah and North Carolina took part.
Enterprising states are driving stronger economic growth and job creation despite many anti-business and anti-growth policies coming from the federal government.
Some more thoughts on how the use of data is impacting the scientific community.