The World Wide Web Foundation has set up a campaign called Web We Want, which it hopes to see draft a Magna Carta for the digital world as a way of… Read more »
DataRPM is one of a handful of companies trying to move business intelligence into its next generation by incorporating natural language processing and a search-like experience. InterWest Partners led its series… Read more »
A Major League Baseball team is reportedly the proud owner of a Cray Urika graph-processing appliance that helps the team make in-game decisions by analyzing lots and lots of data. It… Read more »
Though these technologies are complex, it’s crucial that we understand them and how they work since they are powering the next wave of applications, performing tasks so complicated that traditional programming… Read more »
As it has been doing a lot of lately, the Facebook data science team released another study on Friday highlighting a particular facet of the social science treasure trove that is… Read more »
Even Booz Allen Hamilton has dollar signs in its eyes when it thinks about sports data. The company is getting started on a new venture to apply its data science mastery… Read more »
Among a host of apps and services that are designed to give readers a short take on breaking news that they can read on a mobile device, Circa says it is… Read more »
How creative can a computer be? By teaching its Watson artificial intelligence system to recognize food, IBM is hoping to show that even though it’s a computer, Watson can also be… Read more »
The NSA whistleblower has given extensive evidence to an inquiry into the surveillance of European citizens, describing what he calls a “bazaar” of EU intelligence agencies allowing the U.S. to spy… Read more »
As a new study about sex trafficking during the Super Bowl highlights, advances in data analysis are underpinning some powerful new ways of tackling very tough problems. Among all the stones… Read more »