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This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…

Yeah, you read that right. Tardiness makes the world go ’round:
One day…

internet.artizans reflects on the usefulness of open data:
I’m inspired by the idea…

In regards to the UK’s recent boom in open data, Simon Rogers of…

BP processes about 1.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, across six…

Maybe there’s something to this whole data science thing after all. Mike Loukides…

Health and Human Services (HHS) is about to announce the launch of their…

Men’s Health takes a look at America’s most sugary drinks and their junk…

When you ride your bicycle around, I bet you always wish for two…

John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University, explains, in the New…

No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers… only. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here’s my guess about what happened.

Sebastian Wernicke, an engagement manager at Oliver Wyman and former bioinformatics researcher, explains the results from his pseudo-analysis of TED talks. The result: a guide on how to give the ultimate TED talk.

This is a story of fake charities and tax shelters. In an analysis of data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), it was found that billions of dollars in donations were collected by fraudulent organizations, with only a tiny portion going to the actual causes. In one case, only $1 out of every $100 went to helping the homeless. The rest of the money went to a tax shelter. Shameful.

Along the same lines of Dolores Labs’ color experiment, Randall Munroe of xkcd…

Almost a year and a half ago, Infochimps, the data repository slash marketplace,…

Statisticians are mad and out for blood. Someone called R an epic fail…

In another step towards open data and all that jazz, the World Bank…

Anyone who’s looked at campaign finance data knows it can get messy really…

A recent study [pdf] by Sitaram Asur and Bernardo A. Huberman at HP…

IBM has been spreading the whole “smarter planet” spiel for a while now,…