Discover the power of predictive modeling to forecast future outcomes using regression, neural networks, and more for improved business strategies and risk management.

Ideally, predictive algorithms are stone-cold, rational, big data-crunching tools that can assist humans in their flawed decision-making process, but the caveat is that they can often reflect the ...

A few weeks ago a story broke revealing that the New Orleans Police Department had been using a predictive policing tool supplied by CIA-backed data mining company, Palantir, to identify gang members.

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Stanley, chief data scientist at ...

Photo by Matt Wade/flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Algorithms are finding their way into all areas of our lives—from determining what news stories pop up in your social media feed to suggesting new music or ...

As technology is built by humans, it of course will mimic our prejudices. Perhaps more worrisome, and less understood is how technological biases can not only reinforce but further exacerbate societal ...

If you are like me, you sometimes have a hard time trying to decide what to watch on Netflix. Considering the thousands of titles in their catalog, they try to make it easier for us by providing a ...

Predictive algorithms help retailers leverage historical data and trend analysis to forecast future product demand with greater accuracy. Retailers forecast ...

Law enforcement in America is facing a day of reckoning over its systemic, institutionalized racism and ongoing brutality against the people it was designed to protect. Virtually every aspect of the ...

Seeta Peña Gangadharan, an assistant professor in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, is an affiliate fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute. Updated ...

It’s that time of year again. March Madness is upon us, in all its basketball, school-spirit, gambling, money-on-the-line, eyes-glued-to-tiny-phone-screen-sports-apps, hidden-browser-tab-at-work, ...