Data

Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms that only have to remember slivers of massive data sets. He also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code.

Ronald Rivest helped come up with the RSA algorithm, which safeguards online commerce. Now he’s hoping to make democratic elections more trustworthy.

A little high school geometry can help you understand the basic math behind movie recommendation engines.

Promising efforts at disentangling the effects of genes and the environment on complicated traits may have been confounded by statistical problems.

Just how fast can the fastest human run? This adapted book excerpt from Infinite Powers reveals how calculus helps us investigate the nature of motion and change.

By reconstructing prehistoric food webs and analyzing the diverse interactions of humans with other species, the ecologist Jennifer Dunne is developing a new understanding of sustainability through network science.

A scientist and programmer with a literary bent, Valeria Pettorino thinks multiple angles and diverse points of view are needed to unriddle the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

The statistician Donald Richards lives to uncover subtle patterns hiding in real-world data.

To efficiently analyze a firehose of data, scientists first have to break big numbers into bits.