Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies. AI is all about data. Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms to do ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data has grades. Much like olive oil, flour, gasoline, beef ...

Marketing used to rely a lot more on gut feeling. Creative directors would dream up campaigns over long lunches, and my team and I would blast messages to anyone who'd listen. We called it ...

Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans. The data collected and maintained by the ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks to Sam Levine, former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, now at UC Berkeley, about the use online data to charge some customers more for products and services.