The statistics may feel familiar: a 2014 study by Pew Research in Washington DC showed that 40% of internet users have been harassed and 66% of those said the most recent instance was on social media. Since then, despite many promises made by internet companies, efforts to curb online harassment using human moderation have fallen flat. […]

Of course, lying with statistics has been a thing for a long time, but charts tend to spread far and wide these days. There’s a lot of them. Some don’t tell the truth. Maybe you glance at it and that’s it, but a simple message sticks and builds. Before you know it, Leonardo DiCaprio spins […]

Project Jupyter aims to create an ecosystem of open source tools for interactive computation and data analysis, where the direct participation of humans in the computational loop—executing code to understand a problem and iteratively refine their approach—is the primary consideration. Anchoring Jupyter around humans is key to the project; it helps us both narrow our […]

AI is mainstream and its applications are limitless; here is the AI forecast for 2017 from some of the experts in the industry. Source: AI Forecast for 2017

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“propose one possible taxonomy of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and iNterpret” Source: dataists » A Taxonomy of Data Science

When it comes to fraud prevention, it is important to recognize that technology alone is insufficient. Fraud managers with years of experience fighting fraud can never be replaced by a machine, but a combination of the two entities can produce far better results. People dedicate their lives to committing fraud with the help of technology; […]

Today, nearly 45 percent of trading is done electronically, according to Coalition, a U.K. firm that tracks the industry. In addition to back-office clerical workers, on Wall Street machines are replacing a lot of highly paid people, too. Source: As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe Are Threatened

A search engine can now respond to users with questions of its own. For example, a search for “truffles” on Amazon returns results, but also suggests “chocolate truffles” and “truffle oil” as alternative searches. Search engines can also interrupt users mid-query with suggestions and even instant answers (e.g., Google Instant). The ideal search engine is […]