Assuring data quality should be one of the most important goals for IT professionals. This is truer today than it has ever been as organizations rely on data to power their AI and machine learning ...

Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them as ...

AI is all about data, and the representation of the data matters strongly. But after focusing primarily on 8-bit integers and 32‑bit floating-point numbers, the industry is now looking at new formats.

The world of cells is surprisingly noisy. Each cell carries unique genetic information, but when we try to measure cellular ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

Data now fuels everything from daily operations to long-term strategy, making data literacy—the ability to read, understand and leverage insights from data—a core business skill for professionals ...

Cell-type heterogeneity can be a major source of confounding and reverse causation in epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS). Adjustment for cell-type composition is therefore critical for an ...

Scientific Data mandates authors submit datasets to an appropriate public data repository. Data should be submitted to discipline-specific, community-recognised service where available or a generalist ...