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Data scientists, journalists, industry leaders, policy makers and others involved with big data are moving to lay the groundwork for ethics policies in the gathering, analysis, and use of big [...]

Last week we talked about using Tabula to free data from PDFs and get it into a workable state. Sometimes when extracting data using tools such as Adobe Acrobat, Tabula or simply cutting and [...]

Many times valuable data comes your way in the form of a PDF. Sometimes this happens because the data you want is being published in an annual report or other type of formal document. Other times [...]

Online experts have been predicting that “this will be the year mobile finally arrives” for more than five years.  Citing seemingly high growth rates of often as high as 500%, it seems they’ve [...]