The origin of heavy elements in our universe is theorized to be the result of neutron star collisions, which produce conditions hot and dense enough for free neutrons to merge with atomic nuclei and ...

This is Part 7 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In a cavernous converted chapel at ...

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 ...

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 ...

One fact about machine learning and data algorithms that may surprise business users is that there aren’t actually that many of them. This topic can get overwhelming for busy professionals. But in ...

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 ...

Information from mobile marketing data firm Flurry suggests that Apple might have made some changes to the algorithms which govern the chart positions on the iOS App Store. The changes are thought to ...

Business leaders and social scientists know: bad data in, bad data out. As the country struggles with demands for systemic change in policing, would-be reformers are suggesting that "data-driven ...

A Los Alamos simulation of an accretion disk after the collision of two neutron stars. This event generates both light (blue) and heavy (red) elements. The origin of heavy elements in our universe is ...