New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

It may be niche, but it's a big niche in a data-driven world.

AI innovations have long promised productivity at scale, powered by breakthroughs in underlying technologies such as large language models (LLMs), aiding state-of-the-art applications to reason with ...

The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors’ Buildings and Grounds Committee on Thursday reviewed the schematic design of the School of Data Science Entrepreneurship Building, proposed for the ...

R for Geographic Data Science This project is a book (down) introducing geographic data science using R, which I designed as a companion for the module GY7702 R for Data Science of the MSc in ...

Matthews is a fellow of science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Russell is the Huffington fellow in child health and L.E. Simmons senior fellow in health ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor at the University of Oslo, decided to stay in and complete a tedious task that he had been putting off for ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...