I Built Products Backward for Years. This Radical Data-First Framework Changed Everything

A decade in product development taught me that strong products don't come from UI or features. It's the data model underneath ...
Nature

Big data and simple models used to track the spread of COVID-19 in cities

Behind the highly politicized disagreements over COVID-19 control measures lies a widely shared desire to return economic and social life to sustainable levels as soon and for as long as possible, ...
dbta

Modeling Data is Important - Database Trends and Applications

Data modeling has always been a task that seems positioned in the middle of a white-water rapids with a paddle but no canoe. On one side of the data modeling rapids are the raging agilists who are ...

From static papers to living models: turning limb development research into interactive science

LimbNET, a new open-access and user-friendly platform from EMBL Barcelona, enables scientists to simulate how gene networks ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

A surprisingly simple model can explain how brain cells organize and connect

A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...
Nature

Data visualizations are key to COVID-19 communication, but we still don't understand their impact

There have never been so many line charts, bar charts and choropleth maps occupying the news, as simple data visualisations have become key to communicating vital information about the coronavirus ...