AT&T knows it's losing the future. Its strategy? To slow down the future's inevitable arrival, one overage charge at a time. Squeeze a few more dollars out of the customer, while squeezing the life out of budding competitors.
While Americans know that Uncle Sam spends a lot, they don't always have an accurate sense of what the money buys.
In terms of shifts in public opinion, January and February were the best two months President Obama has yet had during his entire presidency.
Last October, Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) announced HealthData.gov at the HealthCamp ...
One way of lowering the tone of rhetoric on political issues would be to make it more fact-based. If the White House wants to try to find any kind o...
Parents need to demand that their children learn math. Math literate citizens can will use analytical reasoning to see through the lies of government and the ridiculous insults from the mainstream media.
As the vote in the Senate to repeal the healthcare reform law failed, Silicon Valley played host to a discussion on real innovation for our healthcare system: the powerful potential of data.
When taken month-to-month, January, 2011, was Obama's best month of his entire presidency. Not only did he finally get his bump -- but it was a truly significant bump.
As more of our societal interaction includes an online component, we must ensure that we are paying attention every time we hit that "enter" key.
Let us pretend that physicians of all specialties were held to similar measures of accountability and enveloped with the same kinds of discourses that we see in education reform debates. What might that look like?
To kickoff the New Year, the Future of Privacy Forum has released their first annual list of privacy ins and outs for 2011.
Obama once again charted an unbelievably stable month in terms of approval ratings. The mildly good news was in his disapproval rating, which dropped significantly over the course of December.
Here's my attempt to capture the most important stories that affected the greening of business in 2010 and my predictions for the future.
As Julian Assange's defense against sexual assault shadows his defense of the Wikileaks documents, we find ourselves in a discomfiting alien netherworld -- one well demonstrated by this exhibit.
Obama just had his most stable month ever in the public opinion polls, capping off a remarkable year of polling stability. Were you to just read the headlines or listen to the soundbites, you may have a different impression.
Some radical forms of mapping, representation and analysis are being developed through a cartography that renders visible the fast-growing amount of d...
Expedia analysts realised the site needed to be changed after investigating why many customers who clicked the 'Buy Now' button on the company's site ...
Obama's approval rating ended the month on somewhat of an upswing, at 46.1 percent.Obama's approval rating stayed remarkably steady all month long.
Over the last 10 years the web and our personal identifiable data has grown up. It has gone from an awkward middle school dance -- boys on one side girls the other.
The tons of assessments we drop on students monthly give us nothing but decimals and percentages, rarely making any definitive statements about the progress that our students make in their education.
The potential impact of "data computing" cannot be overstated. Companies' ability to make data-driven decisions in real time is a trend that "has the potential to drive a radical transformation in research, innovation, and marketing."
Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news.
Last month I rashly wrote that since Obama was starting the month on an upswing, he had a good chance of posting largish gains in September. This didn't happen.
The estimated amount of "data in the digital universe" this year -- 1.2 zettabytes (1.3 trillion gigabytes) -- is equal to 75m fully-loaded 16GB iPads...
Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity, instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people.
