There’s no doubt that data and algorithms play an important part in the modern workplace, but we shouldn’t forget the human component of our decisions. We have an overwhelming amount of number and ...

This new law, already subject to lawsuits, lets shoppers know when companies are quietly raising online prices for certain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The data-driven revolution is prefaced upon the idea that data and ...

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 ...

Using Big Data for Good Requires Testing, Transparency, Precision, and Due Diligence Big data can help drive decisions in almost every aspect of our lives—from the way financial products are ...

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, ...

Java programmers use data structures to store and organize data, and we use algorithms to manipulate the data in those structures. The more you understand about data structures and algorithms, and how ...

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 ...

The false alert Thursday mistakenly claimed a magnitude 5.9 earthquake had struck near Carson City, Nevada. Here's what ...