Earthquake science explains why election polls were so wrong

Polls are not predictors. This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It's not that the polling system itself is broken -- instead, polls behave exactly as they're designe...

Twitch streamers raised $17.4 million for charities in 2015

Twitch is huge. There's no getting around this fact: Video giant YouTube basically copied Twitch's gameplan last year, the site launched Twitch Creative and Twitch Plays sub-sections, it dominated the streaming eSports market, and debuted a successfu...

Top 50 of Internet’s Most Fascinating List Released by Cosmo


Cosmopolitan today released the Internet’s Most Fascinating list, a first-of-its-kind collection and celebration of the 50 people (and animals) on the Internet who we, as a culture, obsess over both...

Big Data Bypasses C-Suite


Everywhere you turn today it seems like someone is hawking something to do with big data—today’s corporate “must have”. It seems that all the buzz and hype usually gets down to some very tactical...

Why Google Can Not Run The World: Wisdom = Data + Experience


Google’s purchase of Nest moves it one step further into the Internet of Things and a completely connected world. There’s no doubt that data-driven decisions can make homes more energy efficient....

Data Science At Manheim


As ones and zeros eat the world, data is the new product and data science is the new process of innovation. The International Institute of Analytics predicts that in 2014 companies in a variety of...