CERN: A Case Study in “Big Science” Data Management
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) became a poster-child for organizing…
Data Scientists Should Be the New Factory Workers
The factory environment is a data scientist’s paradise: both highly multivariate and…
Using Data for K-12 Education
When 44 Atlanta schools were implicated in a standardized test cheating scandal…
Statisticians Push Back Against the “End of Theory” Problem
For years, some commentators have worried that increasing volumes of data coupled…
Using Data to Fight Counterfeiting
Whether advertised on seedy websites or peddled on Manhattan’s Canal Street, counterfeit…