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 ...

This new law, already subject to lawsuits, lets shoppers know when companies are quietly raising online prices for certain ...

Data-driven personalisation has become central to our life online. Curated recommendations govern our online experiences: the search results we receive, the music we listen to, the content that fills ...

Triclustering algorithms offer a sophisticated approach to analysing gene expression data by simultaneously grouping genes, experimental conditions, and temporal points. These multidimensional methods ...

What if the computer algorithms could tell more compelling stories than journalists, writers or business analysts? Well, this is increasingly becoming a reality. A new generation of Big Data tools are ...

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 ...

Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, ...

There’s no doubt that data and algorithms play an important part in the modern workplace, but we shouldn’t forget the human component of our decisions. We have an overwhelming amount of number and ...