The healthcare industry has had a love-hate relationship with patient data. There’s either too much or too little, in the wrong format or siloed so that extracting and sharing it with all the people ...

Covid-19 was a severe test for our public health system. It laid bare many challenges and the need to focus attention on data collection, sharing and analysis to empower data-driven decision-making.

As state and local governments adjust to the ramifications of the 2025 fiscal year, they’ll need to balance budgetary concerns with the ability to deliver exceptional citizen services. The ability to ...

At an event to commemorate 50 years of the National Sample Survey (NSS) in 2001, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee noted that these surveys had contributed “invaluable raw material" to ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

Herkulaas MvE Combrink is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre For Digital Futures at the University of the Free State. Benjamin T H Smart receives funding from The National Research ...

I recently finished William D. Cohan’s epic history of General Electric called Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. It spans the company’s full 125-plus-year history with the bulk of ...