Big Data for Social Good will encourage you to think critically about important social questions, such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and help you understand how ...

The world is rapidly advancing towards becoming a fully digital society. At a global level, the amount of data is projected to increase more than fivefold, rising from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 ...

Jasmin Perez is in math class, and her assignment is to figure out how likely she is to die. It’s an unusual exercise in the world of high school math, where most students are calculating angles or ...

We live in a world ruled by data. One study predicts that by 2020, 1.7 MB of data will be created every second for every person on earth. In other words, it’s officially the age of Big Data, and it’s ...

It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a "We don't need no stinking SQL" attitude to a "Can I please have some SQL with that?" philosophy. The nonrelational databases that ...

2018 was a great year for IPOs, and the momentum is likely to continue throughout 2019 despite the government shutdown in January. As companies wait longer to go public, investors are increasingly ...

A new study that looked at nearly 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel for essentially every country on the planet. At 911 million tons, the total ...