Healthy data collection is the process of collecting, organizing and utilizing data in a legal, honest and safe manner. It’s an approach to data that is in everyone’s interest. When a business has ...

Meta, Facebook's parent firm, is not a stranger anymore when it comes to data collection. It's been a long time since users complained about how the app gathers their personal data. Now, in the first ...

Gathering client data upfront is a critical, but often unnecessarily difficult, first step of any financial advisor-client relationship. Too often, wealth management firms still rely on spreadsheets, ...

The Pro Farmer Crop Tour‘s data-gathering methods are disciplined and produce consistent results. Results from the Tour have a big impact on Pro Farmer Newsletter’s annual crop production estimate ...

Pro Farmer Crop Tour‘s data-gathering methods are disciplined, which produces consistent results. Those numbers then have a big impact on Pro Farmer’s annual crop production estimates released on ...

Designing and implementing a successful voice of customer strategy is no small feat. Goals need to be set, quantitative and qualitative data-gathering methods need to be chosen, and technology for ...

One of the most conspicuous examples of big data in action is Google’s data-aggregating tool Google Flu Trends (GFT). The ...

They rattle off words like "mapping," "modules" and "longitudinal studies," vocabulary more common in the life of a data cruncher than of a Catholic sister. But some like Sr. Brenda Hernández, of the ...

Haoyi Chen is coordinator of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, United Nations Statistics Division, New York City, USA. The world is more than halfway through the United Nations ...