Microsoft

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Background: There is a longstanding association between provider-specific procedure volumes and outcomes. “To inform patients and caregivers about clinicians’ experience,” the Centers for Medicare and ...
Wilkes University

Data Security Incident Notice

October 8, 2025, Wilkes, Barre, Pennsylvania – The privacy and security of the personal information we maintain is of the utmost importance to Wilkes University (“Wilkes”). Wilkes recently discovered ...
Frontiers

Qualitative data analysis: reflections, procedures, and some points for consideration

This article adopts a constructivist grounded theory approach based on the principle of intersubjective relations and the co-construction of interpretations. Reflecting on the author's experiences as ...
CNN

Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Federal Register

Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request on Procedures for Determination Letters and Other Rulings

This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the daily Federal Register. It is not an official legal edition of the Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the ...
Reuters

US Labor Department reducing CPI collection sample amid hiring freeze

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Labor Department's economic statistics arm said on Wednesday it was reducing the Consumer Price Index collection sample in areas across the country due to ...
The New York Times

U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system. By Ben Casselman The Bureau of ...
Harvard Business Review

The Risks of Collecting Employees’ Biometric Data

Companies can now accrue stunning amounts of intimate data about their employees’ bodies. Some might collect biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans as part of efforts to improve security ...
labs.sogeti

CRAFTING COMPELLING DATA PERSONAS: EXAMPLES AND APPLICATION

Wrapping up a multi-week series on Crafting Data Personas. What are they, why are they important, and how to get started. Continuing from last week, we’re diving right into examples of personas. I ...