Big data’s hidden cost: The carbon footprint of computational science
As the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis focus our minds on how to reduce energy, a group of scientists have highlighted the hidden environmental cost
As the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis focus our minds on how to reduce energy, a group of scientists have highlighted the hidden environmental cost
While engineering, finance, and commerce have profited immensely from novel algorithms, they are not the only ones. Large-scale computation has been an integral part of
A renowned theoretical computer science expert recently released an astonishing physics pre-print paper that tosses fuel on the fiery debate over… whether humans could use
Astronomy is all about data. The universe is getting bigger and so too is the amount of information we have about it. But some of
Scientists have already gathered enough data to make many huge astronomy discoveries. There’s so much data, though, that they haven’t been able to sift through
Whether you are a social media marketer offering your services to businesses or a business owner using social media to reach customers, it is imperative
When The Economist features big data on its cover you know that it has gone mainstream. And, indeed for some time now, the lure of
Testing general relativity is a fraught business. The theory has proven to be so robust that anyone who thinks it’s wrong gets slapped around by
You know that data quality helps your data analysts perform their jobs better and can smooth the transfer of data across your organization. But data
It has been estimated that as many as 91% of the so-called facts from Donald Trump’s election campaign are untrue. The scale of this phenomenon
The biggest amount of data ever gathered and processed passing through the UK, for scientists and SMBs to slice, dice, and turn into innovations and