Tag: data science

• Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

  February 12, 2025

  A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ more ›

• LevelUp

  December 3, 2023

  It’s time to be proactive about user privacy. Find out if you’re sending too much data to Facebook—or if you need to send data at all https://themarkup.org/series/levelup more ›

• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

  February 10, 2021

  In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The… more ›

• Data lakes: where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day

  October 23, 2019

  Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”.… more ›

• How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

  October 3, 2019

  The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come… more ›

• Where Does Major American Art Come From? Mapping the Whitney Biennial.

  September 2, 2019

  The first Whitney Annual in 1932 was transgressive. The museum was a one-year-old fledgling, set in a rowhouse on West Eighth Street. Its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a collector… more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›

• Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari

  August 20, 2019

  In her new performance lecture title “Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism,” Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized. https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/ more ›

• I found your data. It’s for sale.

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve watched you check in for a flight and seen your doctor refilling a prescription. I’ve peeked inside corporate networks at reports on faulty rockets. If I wanted, I could’ve… more ›

• Data Ethics is important

  June 2, 2019

  The May issue of Admap puts the spotlight on data ethics. According to the Open Data Institute, data ethics is “a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices with the… more ›