As digital landscapes become more guarded, standard data collection methods often hit invisible walls, triggering captchas and IP bans. For data engineers, social media managers, and ad verification ...

Qualitative research is a unique and complex approach to understanding the phenomenon. Unlike quantitative research, which relies on numbers and statistics to understand facts through reductionist ...

Abstract: The congestion and disruption of information infrastructures frequently happen during disasters, which would hinder the understanding of disaster scenarios, and thus impede rapid response ...

Investigative needs differ across legal contexts, requiring distinct approaches to mobile data collection in criminal and civil cases. Overcollection of smartphone data leads to increased risk, ...

We often hear that “Who remembers the one who comes second?” The term ‘secondary’ is often associated with something less important, isn’t it? But today I tell you the importance of secondary in today ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...

Abstract: The complex submarine geography, variable ocean current dynamics, and challenging underwater communication conditions present significant technical challenges to the implementation of data ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system. By Ben Casselman The Bureau of ...

A research team has developed a novel method for estimating the predictability of complex dynamical systems. Their work, "Time-lagged recurrence: A data-driven method to estimate the predictability of ...