When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

Researchers around the world are racing to find ways to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Among their many challenges is the need to connect and correlate disparate data sets to make connections and ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students ...

Science and data are interwoven in many ways. The scientific method has lent a good part of its overall approach and practices to data-driven analytics, software development, and data science. Now ...

Whether you’re genuinely interested in getting insights and solving problems using data, or just attracted by what has been called “the most promising career” by LinkedIn and the “best job in America” ...

Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...

Community detection seeks to partition the vertices of a network into groups whose members are more densely connected to each other than to the rest of the graph. As data sources expand, from social ...