A data broker aggregates this information from a variety of sources before processing it and licensing it to other parties to make a profit. 1 Unfortunately, these actions can often involve ...

This guidance note discusses how to report statistics and data, while avoiding some of the pitfalls. Advice in assessing the creditability of data-based stories; statistical checking or how to ...

New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.

Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources, the second report in a series funded by the National Science Foundation, discusses how use ...

The U.S. Census Bureau today released new estimates from its National Experimental Well-Being Statistics (NEWS) project. NEWS ...

Flock Safety, a license plate reading tech firm that recently bought a drone company, is taking heat over the data sources for its new platform. It’s not the only law enforcement technology ...

Statistics are suffering a crisis of confidence. The UK has had a run of flawed economic data; earlier this month chief statistician Ian Diamond stepped down, citing health issues.

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.

Personalized PCA, a statistical tool capable of distinguishing shared and unique features, can help disentangle complex data from multiple sources, such as smartwatch data. Credit: This image was ...

Use this lesson to introduce students to how data and statistics can be used to spread misinformation online. Students will learn to recognize unsupported data or statistics and equip them with ...

Statistical agencies and outside experts agree that federal statistics will ultimately need to incorporate more data from private sources and administrative records alongside traditional surveys.