This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chris Mattmann, a 44-year-old data scientist from La Canada Flintridge, California, who previously served as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's ...

O'Neil is the author of several data science books, such as Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

“Social Physics,” the new book by Alex Pentland, a prominent computer scientist at M.I.T., purports to be about Big Data—the super-hyped (some say over-hyped) detection of statistical ...

A key Obama administration scientist brushed aside inconvenient data that showed a slowdown in global warming in compiling an alarming 2015 report that coincided with the White House participation ...

A new book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz ... but I come from the philosophy world and my view of science and data has always been that it can help us get more of what we want, but it can’t ...

An information scientist at UC Berkeley ... wild internet from which the data got scraped. When Bamman's team includes public domain books in their tests, the scores get higher — "Alice's ...