More or Less: Can big data save lives?

More or Less: Can big data save lives?

In More or Less Ruth Alexander explains – and sometimes debunks – the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. This week we ask – our everyday lives generate around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data according to IBM....
Is data visualisation just style over substance?

Is data visualisation just style over substance?

The advent of sophisticated computer graphics has encouraged more and more use of data-visualisation – not least by BBC News. The clever means of presenting detailed text or statistical information in a non-conventional manner is developing fast, but some...