"These statistical agencies are essential infrastructure," Nancy Potok said. "There are so many critical decisions made based ...

The data genie is well and truly out of the bottle. The presence of data-driven consultancies, the rise of public data websites and the growth of its use in the media (cough, cough) highlight how ...

It’s not a story about wonky statistics. It’s about America’s reliability as a borrower of trillions of dollars, something that underpins our global economy. The internal watchdog for the Department ...

Data brokering has become a multi-billion dollar industry, with the personal data of millions across the world being accumulated and traded in the hope of driving corporate growth while promising ...

It is becoming more and more difficult to secure federal data that measures the condition of our nation. This has become most apparent by how different government agencies are being influenced by ...

The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and the public has changed significantly in the past decade, raising questions about the fundamental survey ...

Statistical data science represents an interdisciplinary field that merges the rigour of probability theory and statistical inference with modern computational tools to draw insights and make ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

If the past few decades have confirmed anything, it is the power of data, broadly defined to include activity involving small data, big data, statistics, analytics, and artificial intelligence by ...

Maps are no longer just about navigating roads and borders, since they are increasingly being used as storytelling tools as well. Endless numbers and complicated data can be turned into something ...

As China continues to tighten information flows in and out of the country, how reliable are statistics from official Chinese sources? Recent media pieces have highlighted the deepening lack of ...

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...