Data Science Articles

Stephen Gossett

Updated on April 19, 2024

At a panel discussion for EFF’s 30-year anniversary, Edward Snowden and others examined the state of surveillance and privacy in 2021.

Edward Hearn

Updated on April 19, 2024

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. And then there are data visualizations.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on April 19, 2024

How predictive analytics saves clients and separates good customers from “harbingers of failure.”

Scott Jensen

Updated on April 19, 2024

We’re working on it.

Grant Shirk

Updated on April 19, 2024

To start, stop neglecting your data.

Todd Shepherd

Updated on April 19, 2024

When each user in an organization views data as a personal resource, they can get overly comfortable modifying it until it’s polluted. To avoid this problem, recalibrate your approach so that data is considered a shared resource.

Edward Hearn

Updated on April 19, 2024

Anyone with even a passing familiarity with data and statistics has heard the old maxim “correlation is not causation.” If that's true, though, why use statistics at all?

Edward Hearn

Updated on April 19, 2024

You can compile all the data-driven analysis you like, but it’s useless unless someone in a position of power actually pays attention to it. Make sure you include the key ingredient to pique interest: context.

Edward Hearn

Updated on April 19, 2024

More data can actually hurt when the collection methods are ignored.

Edward Hearn

Updated on April 19, 2024

The proliferation of AI solutions has made big data all the rage, but you can probably find a less expensive way to generate useful, actionable insights.