The numbers for October 17, 2014

Oct 17, 2014
The UN's trust fund to fight Ebola has only raised $100,000. Let's do the numbers.

A farmers market at your front door

Oct 8, 2014
A startup that bridges the gap between local farmers and customers.

LinkedIn gives college ratings a big data twist

Oct 7, 2014
LinkedIn makes a foray into university rankings by looking at "desirable" jobs.

Your phone knows where you are. So do marketers

Sep 30, 2014
Companies can use your mobile location data to learn what you do and what you buy.

Four ways the web is helping TV advertising

Sep 16, 2014
Big data isn't killing TV ads, it's making them more targeted and less annoying

For public good, not for profit.

It's not you, it's my cost-benefit calculations

Sep 8, 2014
A commentary from McSweeney's.

How to sell your private data - if you really want to

Aug 27, 2014
There are a bunch of new ways you can sell your own data for profit.

To prevent crime, predict it

Aug 27, 2014
How looking at data to predict crime trends can help -- or harm -- citizens.