In the quest to teach software to understand language, scientists have mainly focused on text as a source of data to help train their algorithms. Among other things, text is used to populate a ...

Images, graphs, and tables are wonderful ways to communicate information quickly and effectively to an audience. However, they must be presented and organized correctly to be useful. All images, ...

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MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was an accident that emerged from identifying similarities between two ...

Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past temperatures going back half a millennium before the ...

Data can be presented in many ways that make it quicker and easier to read. In this section we will look at some of these ways. It is important to choose the best way to present data. This is the data ...

A few days ago, I was looking for a very specific piece of data: the average age of professors in the US. I did a Google search for “average age of us professors” and, after the obligatory and ...