Cities only occupy about 3% of the Earth’s total land surface, but they bear the…

When Genetic Data Meets Marketing
Researchers from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that assesses the implications of the growth of private genetic testing for the field of…
The GovLab Launches Collective Intelligence to Solve Public Problems
A new report from The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering has found organizations that tap the wisdom of the crowd are better at solving many of the problems…
Webinar: Data Gaps Posing Risks to Financial Markets and Economy
The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business hosts Federal Reserve Vice Chair of Supervision Randal Quarles and Stanford University business professor Darrell Duffie for a discussion on…
RDA Publishes Final Version of COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing
Under public health emergencies, and particularly the COVID19 pandemic, it is fundamental that data is shared in both a timely and an accurate manner. This coupled with the harmonisation of the many…

Pandemic, Privacy Rules Add to Worries Over 2020 Census Accuracy
For the Census Bureau, the timing of national shutdowns due to the pandemic could not have been much worse. Stay-at-home orders in March coincided with the period when millions of Americans received…