scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Monday, November 17, 2025
TopicBig data

Topic: big data

India solves one problem, adds another while using AI for climate crisis. Clean up data first

New Delhi: The promise of artificial intelligence is empty if India doesn’t clean up its vast databases. Merely digitising records is not enough. It’s a...

Data scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st century. Then AI came

Nitin Seth’s ‘Mastering The Data Paradox’ is a guide to big data. It offers and expansive and actionable framework to unlock the potential of AI and data.

A+++ to D – How China rates its citizens. Drunk driving can take you way down

In ‘How Should A Government Be’, Jaideep Prabhu writes China's ominous Social Credit system is a vision of what’s in store for us. Whether you are Left or Right, it matters whether your government does.

China is tackling air pollution with big data. Here’s how

China loses 1 million people every year to air pollution. Now it’s using data to change that.

Modi govt plans to change the way it handles data, to assess ministries on system they follow

Niti Aayog and NIC will conduct the assessment. A Data Governance Quality Index scorecard will be prepared based on the results and the ministries will be ranked.

Big data won’t save you from coronavirus

While medical data emerging from hospitals around the world is important for diagnosis, it is also changing almost as fast as the disease itself.

Big data not new, but must be converted to knowledge: Govt’s science adviser VijayRaghavan

VijayRaghavan said knowledge is power, but it will not always be available to everyone. He stressed on the need for democratisation of data and learning.

Privacy is dead. So, it’s time to turn data into a bargaining chip

Tech firms offer services in exchange, but the government will argue it needs your data for national security. Why not trade it then.

Talent analytics and personality tests don’t really help pick the right employee

Psychometric tests such as the Myers Briggs test are used far and wide for hiring purposes as definitive indicators of personality. The truth is far from this.

LinkedIn, like Facebook, is allowing researchers to use its data, but with one big caveat

Restrictions on data mining will stop researchers from using data beyond the requirements of their projects.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.