Tech-enabled SaaS growth companies are among the most progressive companies when it comes to making use of data science. In a global survey conducted by McKinsey Analytics in 2020, only 16% of ...

Climate modeling is one of the most demanding intellectual exercises humans have ever attempted. Scientists are essentially ...

Chief Data Scientist at Reorg, a global provider of credit intelligence, data and analytics, and Adjunct at UVA’s School of Data Science. Data science models deal with uncertainty. Apart from limited ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

After #COVIDー19 crisis passes, could we have a good faith discussion about the uses and abuses of "modeling" to predict the future? Everything from public health, to economic to climate predictions.

As COVID-19 claimed victims at the start of the pandemic, scientific models made headlines. We needed such models to make informed decisions. But how can we tell whether they can be trusted? The ...

In the Spring of 2012, synthetic biology researchers Denny Luan and Cindy Wu launched an experimental company, which tested a new approach for funding science. Crowdfunding was the name of the game, ...