D.C. police chief Pamela Smith announced her resignation after two and a half years amid federal pressure and crime ...

Did National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers rush and manipulate data back in 2015 in order to publish a high-impact study in Science disproving the notion that the rate of man-made ...

WASHINGTON — Hackers have made their way into state election systems “in a few cases,” but the federal government hasn’t found “any manipulation” so far of voting information, the Homeland Security ...

An approaching cyber storm—one capable of unleashing unprecedented chaos—is looming on the horizon of the United States’ public and private sectors. Although experts warn that attackers are poised to ...

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D.C., have falsified data to make crime rates appear lower than they are, according to a person familiar ...

Intelligence leaders are worried that the next front in malicious cyber activity will be efforts to deliberately manipulate data, altering a hacked system in such a way that users will unwittingly ...

Ships of the Russian shadow fleet are switching off their tracking systems twice as often as before the Ukraine war. With ...

If you work with data much, you don’t need a statistical model to predict that the odds of consistently getting data in the format you need for analysis are pretty low. Those who do a great deal of ...

After covering a recent session on data munging with Excel, I wanted to see how those tasks could be accomplished in R. Surely anything you can do in a spreadsheet should be doable in a platform ...