Analytics Insight

Data Science: Building Machine Learning Models, Harvard University

Harvard University presents its eight-week online course through edX, which imparts to students essential knowledge of ...
India Today

IITs are offering 11 free data science and analytics courses. Join by Jan 26

Here are 11 free NPTEL data science and analytics courses from leading IITs cover graph theory, Bayesian modelling, Python, R ...
NPR

2 Senators want to hold big tech accountable for harms caused by algorithms

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...
IEEE

Investigation on PCA and LDA Feature Extraction Algorithms with KNN Classifier Targetting to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy into Detection of Breast Cancer Malignancy

Abstract: This work aims to compare two different Feature Extraction Algorithms (FEAs) viz. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), using a K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
The Washington Post

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...
Food Safety News

Ten years after PCA: Reflections on a trial, its impact, and what still needs to change

This is the final installment of a three-part series marking the 10th anniversary of the historic sentencing in the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) case. To read Part 1, click here. To read Part 2 ...
The Conversation

TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 19, 2025, a preliminary agreement for the sale of a majority stake in TikTok from ...
InfoWorld

Databot: AI-assisted data analysis in R or Python

If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve ...