Your career goals and personal interests should guide your choice of a first programming language, not just what’s popular.

To answer that, in several recent papers, economists have approached this issue in clever new ways. And, though they ask ...

The size and complexity of digital information now available has the potential to improve how we understand, design, implement and evaluate effective public policy. On the economics route of this ...

Angela Rayner is facing a legal battle with green activists over plans for a £1bn data centre on the edge of the M25. Campaigners have challenged a decision by the Deputy Prime Minister to wave ...

The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration. By Zach Montague Reporting from Washington A federal ...

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what's happening on your ...

See how to query documents using natural language, LLMs, and R—including dplyr-like filtering on metadata. Plus, learn how to use an LLM to extract structured data for text filtering. One of the ...

Every few years, the tools we use to automate work shift. In 2025, picking the best programming language for automation can mean fewer headaches and faster results. This post walks through how to ...

Computer science involves much more than writing code. It blends technical knowledge —like programming, algorithms and data systems — with soft skills, such as communication and problem-solving.

Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal ...