Big data has been a business buzzword for years now, with entrepreneurs and the media endlessly chewing over the promise and perils of collecting massive quantities of data. Few are better placed to ...

Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and ...

This program had absolutely nothing to do with race…but multi-variable equations.” That’s what Brett Goldstein, a former policeman for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and current Urban Science ...

The University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics and UW-iSchool partnered with the University Lectures Committee to host mathematician Cathy O’Neil Tuesday evening at the Fluno Center. O’Neil is ...

As big data takes a larger role in healthcare analytics, healthcare organizations may come to rely on algorithms, but some experts are questioning whether the algorithms should be overseen. A new ...

As computing power has increased and data science has expanded into nearly every area of our lives, we have entered the age of the algorithm. While our personal and professional data is being compiled ...

What if the computer algorithms could tell more compelling stories than journalists, writers or business analysts? Well, this is increasingly becoming a reality. A new generation of Big Data tools are ...

Everyone might be talking about Big Data, but it’s not the data itself that’s interesting. It’s the inferences and insight hidden within the data that make it valuable. But as the amount of data ...

From home shopping to homeland security, big data’s sausage machine is devouring us all, according to Christian Rudder’s future-looking Dataclysm FOUR years ago I interviewed Sam Yagan, then CEO of ...

Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and ...