Github has grown to more than 40 million developers and its growth is getting a big boost from data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning repositories. In its annual Octoverse report, ...

When the Ebola outbreak in West Africa picked up pace in July 2014, Caitlin Rivers started to collect data on the people affected. Rivers, then a PhD student in computational epidemiology, wanted to ...

Academia has a problem. Research is becoming increasingly computational and data-driven, but the traditional paper and scientific journal has barely changed to accommodate this growing form of ...