Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the Indian statistician who founded the Indian Statistical Institute and pioneered large-scale sample survey methodology, changed how the world collects data. His methods ...
The health of the box office is in trouble, but Hollywood flopped hardest in 2017. Has the industry at least learned from ...
The nation’s highly anticipated monthly job reports have turned into the boy who cried wolf. Ever since the pandemic, these labor market estimates have been wildly inaccurate and required significant ...
In an age of real-time data, it's inexcusable to be surveying a tiny fraction of total employers every month. Payroll processing firms like ADP and Paychex have a treasure trove of labor market data ...
Welcome to the future. No robots required. For the first time, ABS (the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, powered by ...
California’s plan to hit its richest residents with a one-off wealth tax is a long shot, and its design has problems. But a look at who picks up the tab when billionaires scrimp on taxes, and how ...
Startups often take more risks, look to venture capitalists for funding, and plan to grow their business quickly. As a result, failure rates among startups are higher than those of small businesses.
Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...
If something looks and sounds stupid, but it really works, then it’s not actually stupid! Problems don’t always need to be solved with fancy, expensive, and high-tech approaches. All you really need ...
On Tuesday afternoon, Bob Starkey was in the LSU women’s basketball team’s locker room when he decided to take out his phone and snap a photo he’d later post to Instagram. Starkey wanted people to see ...