When San Francisco launched its first open data portal more than a decade ago, it marked itself as a leader in the space. That portal even came with an executive order promoting open data from ...

The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from the fruits of that labor. A new project puts the lived experiences of data ...

The Exxon Valdez ran aground on March 24, 1989. As it did so, 250,000 barrels of crude oil gushed from the damaged ship and impacted the Alaska shoreline. The accident was an environmental, legal and ...

A new survey of data scientists found that they spend most of their time massaging rather than mining or modeling data. Still, most are happy with having the sexiest job of the 21 st century. The ...

It’s been a few years since the Harvard Business Review declared Data Scientist “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,” so it seems like a good time to revisit the idea. With 250 petabytes of data ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the economics and environmental impacts of energy-hungry data centers and whether these facilities are sustainable in the age of AI. Tech giants have been ...

On TikTok, Reddit, and elsewhere, posts are popping up from users claiming they’re making $20 per hour—or more—completing small tasks in their spare time on sites such as DataAnnotation.tech, ...