ACRL announces the publication of Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, edited by Whitney Kramer, Iliana Burgos, and ...

A guide to what data mining is, how it works, and why it's important. Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists,' privacy advocates ...

Social Media Mining is a process employed by businesses to analyze & extract patterns from social media data. It works on a reward model, and it rewards its users based on their activity, which ...

With Google’s new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we’ll use it. With Google’s new Correlate system, ...

Solon Barocas is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Andrew Selbst is the Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance fellow at Public ...