Mathematician and data analysis pioneer John Tukey said "an approximate answer to the right question is better than an exact answer to the wrong question." Machine learning solutions work by ...

The big data ecosystem has changed. No longer is it true that people just want to store massive quantities of data. Action is not only needed but must be taken to sustain the viability of an ...

Reinventing the wheel is pointless, but for computational biologists it’s sometimes unavoidable. So when Rob Finn and Folker Meyer realized how much their work overlapped, they decided to try ...

Data science, at its core, is still a science: a quest to extract meaning from data and improve understanding. Very little is concrete. There’s always more to learn, more to explore and more to ...

You can cook food in a microwave in minutes. But we don’t say that microwaves “democratized” cooking. Preparing a meal requires much more: selecting and preparing ingredients, optimizing the cooking ...