Steven Roberts, an assistant professor at the U. of Washington who studies how environmental change affects shellfish, tracks social-media metrics to see how his research is used online. Matthew ...

They measure actions taken to prevent illnesses before they happen or to reverse them. Health Care Quality Measures: Which data should you trust?

Solving data management and regulatory compliance issues requires having correct and accurate data, but also using the right measures for evaluating the data and the right identifiers as barometers of ...

No measure of diversity is perfect. Understanding what we can—and can’t—quantify can make it easier to talk about this difficult topic.

Companies might perform consumer research to get an idea for what appeals most to consumers before creating a product conceptual model. It is important to conduct and properly measure business ...

But the data does not, at present, seem well suited for high-level estimates of news consumption. It is worth noting that Pew Research Center’s own organizational expertise in survey work may incline ...

How Data-Gathering Seals Help Scientists Measure the Melting Antarctic Stumped on how to take the temperature of the ocean floor, oceanographers turned to the cutest, most competent divers they knew ...

Utilising their proprietary Databilities® data literacy framework, Data To The People commissioned research to measure the individual data literacy of more than 5,000 employed individuals across ...

But some economists say income data have too many flaws to be the primary measure of inequality. For one thing, many income-inequality measures use income before accounting for the impact of taxes and ...

This fall, the industry will adopt Nielsen's Big Data + Panel, which CEO Karthik Rao says "future proofs" TV ratings as ...