Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about green businesses and how to help startups succeed. Jan 20, 2015, 04:15pm EST Apr 15, 2016, 10:23am EDT This article ...

Many leaders and entrepreneurs who took a presentation skills class I recently led at Harvard were looking for tactics to improve how they communicate data. There’s a trick to presenting numbers in an ...

As humans, we have a tendency to look for silver-bullet solutions to difficult problems. One of the latest manifestations of this tendency is overestimating the value of big data. The term big data, ...

The story/stories you tell using the results of your assessments can, (and should), look different depending on the audience, whether it is internal or external, and what the intended message is to be ...

Businesses collect thousands of data points each day, but those that effectively use the data they’re collecting see an average increase of 8 percent in their revenues and an average decrease of 10 ...

“The graphic method has considerable superiority for the exposition of statistical facts over the tabular. A heavy bank of figures is grievously wearisome to the eye, and the popular mind is as ...

10 News was there for a networking mixer for anyone interested in data science on Monday. The mission is to grow the participation of women in data science while encouraging women to pursue careers in ...

Amid intense scrutiny, lawsuits, harsh federal sanctions, and criminal probes, Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes will finally present data on her struggling company’s blood testing technology.

Mark Twain said, “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” This isn’t quite right. People lie, not numbers. Some misuse numbers to their own advantage, others make honest mistakes in presenting ...

Since its first session in 1947, the UN Statistical Commission has brought together senior statisticians from across the globe to make sure that all nations speak the same statistical language, using ...