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 ...

The global oil producing industry spends millions of dollars every week on preemptive well monitoring—sending technicians to remote sites to check wells for operational faults. Though the idea of ...

New book explores how content recommendation systems confirm our biases by showing us only what they predict we want to see Human attention is in the highest demand it has ever been. In contrast to a ...

Discover how big data is reshaping financial markets with algorithmic trading and investment strategies while overcoming challenges in data analysis and privacy.

Switzerland-based UBS Group AG (UBSG:SW), a multinational investment bank and financial services company co-headquartered in Basel and Zürich and Basel with nearly $1 trillion in total assets, has ...

The following is an excerpt from Kris Shaffer’s book, Data Versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History. It is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and ...

London-based startup Bioniq, which creates hyper-personalised supplements for its customers — who range from pro athletes to regular people on the quest for longer life — has gone global. “STOP ...

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms that only have to remember slivers of massive data sets. He also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code. For Jelani Nelson, algorithms represent a wide-open ...

Chief Business Officer at Cognyte, head of Cognyte’s product, global R&D, business units, and go-to-market strategy. Our world has become increasingly digital. The pandemic that drove the world ...