Thanks to continued growth in the number of mobile phone users, mobile video, 4G networks and the Internet of Things, global mobile data traffic should increase seven-fold from 2016 to 2021, according ...

Goodbye 2016. The journalists and analysts who work with numbers will not miss you. From the United States to the United Kingdom, the last 12 months will be remembered for missed calls, surprises and ...

Another year, another collection of massive data breaches. While 2015 had some massive breaches, 2016 proved worse, with two of the largest data breaches in history, a massive hack at the Democratic ...

Cybersecurity is bound to be one of the top health IT issues in 2017, as evidenced by the sheer number of data breaches that occurred throughout 2016. This year’s healthcare data breaches affected ...

Most faculty members say data-driven assessments and accountability efforts aren’t helping them improve the quality of teaching and learning at their colleges and universities, according to the 2016 ...

President Trump's 2016 campaign identified more than 3 million Black voters it wanted to deter from casting ballots in the presidential election, according to a massive data leak obtained by the ...

Produced by JON HUANG, SAMUEL JACOBY, MICHAEL STRICKLAND and K.K. REBECCA LAI NOV. 8, 2016 Updated as results become available. Data for 2016 were collected by Edison Research for the National ...

Filled with jargon, “meaningless” tables and missing data, state report cards can be difficult for parents to use, an analysis by the Data Quality Campaign says. Under both the No Child Left Behind ...

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