As primary competitors toss around “internal numbers” to claim victory in the early contests, they’re setting a Trumpian precedent.

His data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics—or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo. 

David Auerbach returns with a memoir about coding, literature, and the way technology is changing our lives.

The fine the EU slapped on the company earlier this week may have set a record, but it will have to do more to get Silicon Valley's attention.

Despite promises from Mark Zuckerberg, the company's embrace of facial recognition technology suggests that it has no intentions of changing.

Producers of guns and data say they aren't responsible for misuse. But it's precisely the dangers that make these industries profitable.

The Facebook CEO’s response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal fell short—all but guaranteeing more scrutiny from the government.

Trump disavows data collection, while Clinton is employing it to her advantage.

The number of female bylines is up, but new data analysis shows that women authors are still stereotyped in book reviews.

Companies are mining our data in the name of medical research.

Two professors attempt to answer the question: Are commercial novels really more sentimental than literary fiction?

How a 1950s professor built a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings.

The New York Times' David Leonhardt gets it wrong