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 ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. When it comes to big data and complex algorithms, state and local governments have barely touched the tip ...

The University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics and UW-iSchool partnered with the University Lectures Committee to host mathematician Cathy O’Neil Tuesday evening at the Fluno Center. O’Neil is ...

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 ...

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 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has provided an overview of its approach to potential future cases where machine learning algorithms are deployed as a tool to facilitate ...

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 ...

The Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing Wednesday on the role of algorithms in how companies collect and analyze consumer data, then use the information ...

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 ...

Data are a defining feature of modern society. Every day, humans and the machines they interact with create 2.5 trillion megabytes of data. As data become more prominent and readily available, the ...