Thousands of students in England are angry about the controversial use of an algorithm to determine this year's GCSE and A-level results. They were unable to sit exams because of lockdown, so the ...

The duel is age-old: on one side, cold, methodical and exhaustive ‘calculation’; on the other, the decision-maker’s dazzling intuition, that often indefinable ‘flair’. Since the advent of Big Data ...

Policing the internet in the face of big data is proving to be an almost insurmountable problem W hen, in the mid-1990s, the world wide web transformed the internet from a geek playground into a ...

The Harvard PhD and data scientist talks about her new book and ponders how people’s fear and trust of math is akin to worshipping God “People keep suggesting that democracy is alive and well because ...

In a world where computers make everything easier for us, there are concerns that big data is actually driving discrimination and inequality in society iStock A Harvard mathematician turned social ...