Data was once tangible and tactile. Managing physical files, paper documents, and standard records was relatively straightforward. Today, however, those sources have grown increasingly complex, ...

Economic stories are often built on data. This information can shape how the public understands financial conditions, government policy and business performance. But in our data-saturated information ...

Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides. Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, Anthropic says the standard, which it open ...

A methodological change contributed to a better-than-expected inflation report, prompting questions from some economists. By Ben Casselman An obscure methodological change lowered a key measure of ...

In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending daily life with shutdowns, social distancing, and heightened uncertainty, but the traditional economic ...

Alternative data is a significant yet underutilized source of intelligence, offering insights beyond traditional financial data. Insights derived from non-traditional data sources, such as anonymized ...

Modern consumer-facing organizations rely on collaborative, data-driven decisions to fuel their business—yet the challenge is to do so with a keen focus on ensuring sound, well-maintained, accessible ...

New tracking sites make it easier to follow immigration and enforcement, but journalists still need to verify what they find ...