In art, brush marks can be seen as a flaw or the signature of a noted painter. Similarly, what appears to be operational ...

This program had absolutely nothing to do with race…but multi-variable equations.” That’s what Brett Goldstein, a former policeman for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and current Urban Science ...

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 ...

Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and ...

In the data-centric music economy of 2026, discovery is no longer driven by human taste—it is driven by prediction. Platforms ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a biomedical informatics researcher, Nigam Shah spends his days using math to try to make sense of giant, unwieldy data sets. He’s used data mining to identify off-label drug use and to create ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...