Investors can get clues on when to buy and sell stocks from key pieces of data during the mining cycle. The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. This article is more than 9 years old. Analytics initiatives are not failure proof. In ...

Data mining isn’t just techno-speak for messing around with a lot of data. Data mining doesn’t give you supernatural powers, either. Data mining is a specific way to use specific kinds of math. It’s ...

The government possesses powerful data-mining technology to find patterns that could help catch suspected terrorists. But it must use it in a way that doesn't hurt ordinary Americans, the head of a ...

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 ...