data mining

Scientists decode what makes a New York Times bestseller

Northeastern network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his colleagues have developed a model that harnesses the power of early sales data to predict how many total…

by Allie Nicodemo April 6, 2018

Could real-time projections be a game-changer for Election Day coverage?

On Nov. 8, a group of data scientists and journalists will buck a decades-old tradition by releasing real-time Election Day projections. Renowned statistician Nate Silver…

by Matthew McDonald September 15, 2016

Data mining in a complex world

The real world is an enormously complex network in which everything is interconnected. Assistant professor of computer and information science Yizhou Sun develops data-mining algorithms…

by Angela Herring January 29, 2013

Scientists decode what makes a New York Times bestseller

Could real-time projections be a game-changer for Election Day coverage?

Data mining in a complex world

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