Tag: data
You make decisions quicker and based on less information than you...
Nadav Klein, University of Chicago
We live in an age of information. In theory, we can learn everything about anyone or anything at the touch...
What big data can tell us about how a book becomes...
Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University
The average American reads 12 or 13 books a year, but with over 3 million books in print, the choices they...
College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively
Richard Wright, Georgia State University; Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University
In the wake of controversial and widely...
Which country is best to live in? Our calculations say it’s...
Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Sergei Scherbov, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Simone Ghislandi, Bocconi...
The next big discovery in astronomy? Scientists probably found it years...
Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding: Thousands of black holes likely exist near the center...
Baby bust: 5 charts show how expensive it is to have...
Heidi Steinour, University of South Florida
Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in...
The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...
Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since...
Morgan Currie, Stanford University and Britt S. Paris, University of California, Los Angeles
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
