Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...

Data centers now attract more investment than finding new oil supplies

In a shift, the world will spend $40 billion more on new data centers this year than it will on finding new sources of oil.

Chart allegedly proved Democrat-led cities have more violent crime. We crunched the numbers

Tim Pool's chart is just one example of the countless claims attempting to associate violent crime with a political party.
POWER Magazine

POWER Interview: CyrusOne Expert on How AI Is Reshaping the Data Center–Utility Relationship

CyrusOne’s Jim Roche details how AI-driven workloads, high-density racks, and liquid cooling are transforming the data center ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Microsoft Excel isn't a database, please stop using it like one

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...
Devdiscourse

The Data Aftershock: How Earthquake Records Distort Global Growth Estimates

The IMF paper “The Macroeconomic Impact of Earthquakes on Growth: A Tale from Two Datasets” finds that earthquakes significantly reduce GDP growth—especially in poorer countries, when measured with ...

Automated high-throughput system developed to generate structural materials databases

A NIMS research team has developed an automated high-throughput system capable of generating datasets from a single sample of ...