Big data are everywhere in research, and the data sets are only getting bigger — and more challenging to work with. Unfortunately, says Tracy Teal, it’s a kind of labour that’s too often left out of ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert ...

It doesn’t matter whether you subscribe to the “right brain” or “left brain” camp—the human mind is drawn to aesthetically pleasing shapes, colors, and patterns. And that’s exactly where data ...

Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a National Science Foundation grant. There ...

Biologists are joining the big-data club. With the advent of high-throughput genomics, life scientists are starting to grapple with massive data sets, encountering challenges with handling, processing ...

If you have lots of spreadsheets you would like to analyze, but unfortunately don’t have the time to invest in trawling through each one to any great depth, but known they contain a wealth of valuable ...