Researchers are digging deep -- using wearables, electronic hospital records, open-source data collections, and whole-genome sequencing -- to extract precise information on patients.

Vallarta Supermarkets is testing Badger Technologies multipurpose autonomous robot, named Pepe, to help keep floors clean and shelves fully stocked with correctly priced and placed products (Photo ...

Data that is gathered adaptively—via bandit algorithms, for example—exhibits bias. This is true both when gathering simple numeric valued data—the empirical means kept track of by stochastic bandit ...

The health and fitness industry is a great example of successful data-driven storytelling. Most modern smartphones come preloaded with applications that log data about the user’s daily activities.

When reporting on Latino groups for environment and climate stories, data can be difficult to find. Some of the journalists who have been successful recommend going to the source, and they ...

Cuts at NOAA mean fewer hurricane-hunter aircrafts will be gathering real time data on developing storms and that the team developing computer models for forecasts will be "gutted," insiders say.