New study identifies systematic patterns in armed conflicts across Africa – and the limits of forecasting conflict intensity, ...

Throughout any project, you’re going to gather up quite a bit of data. Now, this can be broken down into two categories: ...

In today's digital age, data inundates us. The sheer volume of information available to us is staggering. We can measure customer likes and dislikes and the number of strokes we took in the swimming ...

"The administration discontinued USDA's study of food insecurity, which is critical to tracking hunger...especially as SNAP benefits are cut," Joel Gurin said.

When I started classes for my master’s degree in information management at the University of Maryland 16 years ago, one of the first things I learned was the difference between data and information.

You often hear entrepreneurs say, “We don’t know what we don’t know,” when talking about deficiencies in data gathering. But when you have data in silos, it’s more a case of “We don’t know what we DO ...

Public health departments depend on accurate and timely data to guide their efforts to control the spread of disease. Full integration of information technology is the norm for other essential data ...

Data science isn’t new, but the demand for quality data has exploded recently. This isn’t a fad or a rebranding, it’s an evolution. Decisions that govern everything from successful presidential ...