Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The data-driven revolution is prefaced upon the idea that data and ...

Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and ...

Java programmers use data structures to store and organize data, and we use algorithms to manipulate the data in those structures. The more you understand about data structures and algorithms, and how ...

What if the computer algorithms could tell more compelling stories than journalists, writers or business analysts? Well, this is increasingly becoming a reality. A new generation of Big Data tools are ...

Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, ...

As computing power has increased and data science has expanded into nearly every area of our lives, we have entered the age of the algorithm. While our personal and professional data is being compiled ...

Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction” on how data can lead us astray–from HR to Wall Street. Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction on how data can lead us astray—from HR ...

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...