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It’s easier to gather and easier to analyze than ever before but data scientists and researchers often have a difficult time overcoming the much more powerful forces fighting against them.
The Nieman Journalism Lab published a thoughtful critique of data journalism on Wednesday, but there are additional things the emerging space could do live up to its hype, including getting more creative about where writers source their data.
As it has been doing a lot of lately, the Facebook data science team released another study on Friday highlighting a particular…
An e-commerce startup called Reflektion has raised an $8 million series B round of venture capital for its technology that helps retailers…
A startup called Lumiata is taking webscale graph analysis like Google and Facebook have perfected and turning it toward personalized health care. As we generate more digital data about research and even personal health, it’s an idea whose time has come.
People Pattern, an Austin, Texas-based startup focused on targeted marketing, has raised a $4.5 million series A round of venture capital from…
Rayid Ghani might be best known for leading the Obama for America data science team, but his latest mission is to bring that experience to bear on the nonprofit world through a research director role at the University of Chicago and a startup called Edgeflip.
Microsoft Seeks Patent on Tastemaker Recommendations This is an interesting patent application, in part because of its techniques and in part because…
Narrative Science, a startup that turns complex text documents into reports or articles that are supposed to resemble something written by a…
Facebook is hosting a Kaggle competition in order to identify candidate for a data scientist position. Résumés are so passé when you can just have applicants prove their skills first.
Bitly found a new CEO in Mark Josephson, who was an executive at Patch. Josephson wants to keep the company moving beyond just shortening links and toward providing data to publishers and others.
For small business lender Capital Access Network, finding worthy borrowers is about a lot more than their credit scores. It’s taking real-world data into account in order to distinguish financial fools from savvy entrepreneurs.
There’s shift happening in the world of online data collection, meaning consumers might expect to get paid for access to their data rather than always playing the role of uncompensated mark. Done right, it’s a system where both sides of the equation stand to win.
