National nonprofit honors Normal for data-driven initiatives

The Town of Normal has been awarded the Bloomberg Philanthropies "What Works Cities" silver certification for using data to ...
HousingWire

Weekly home sales look stronger than normal, but there’s a catch

Recent housing data has been volatile due to holiday timing and an AWS outage, affecting pending sales and inventory figures. While mortgage rates remain near 2025 lows, the data should be interpreted ...
BioSpace

Anavex Life Sciences Announces Oral Blarcamesine Cognitive Resilience Results Approximating Normal Aging in New Precision Medicine Clinical Data from Phase IIb/III Alzheimer ...

Cognitive outcomes observed in the oral blarcamesine 30 mg Precision Medicine cohort move toward normal aging profiles across validated clinical scales, supporting its relevance in early-stage ...
Bloomberg L.P.

BLS Says Database Lockdown ‘Normal’ Ahead of August Jobs Report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics downplayed a lockdown of its online databases after warning of technical difficulties in the moments before the release of the closely watched August employment report. ...
IEEE

An Enhanced Density Peak Clustering Algorithm With Dimensionality Reduction and Relative Density Normalization for High-Dimensional Duplicate Data

Abstract: Cluster analysis is a fundamental method for studying big data problems, as it groups samples based on shared features. In cluster analysis, a particular class of big data problems is ...
The New York Times

Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big downward revision as “rigged.” By Ben Casselman Graphics by Keith Collins and ...
IEEE

Some Practical Aspects of the Relational Database Normalization Process

Abstract: Database normalization is a ubiquitous theoretical relational database analysis process. It comprises several levels of normal forms and encourage database designers not to split database ...
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 ...
Forbes

Back-End Engineering Is Dead: Long Live Data Engineering

The landscape of software development has undergone a significant transformation, with data engineering emerging as a crucial discipline while traditional back-end engineering roles evolve. This is ...
Frontiers

The control of small-scale syndepositional normal faults on sandstone distribution: example from the Paleogene bottom Sandstone Member in the Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin, China

Introduction: The syndepositional normal faults related paleogeomorphic units in sedimentary basins play a crucial role in controlling sediment transport and infill processes. Previous studies have ...
CNN

23andMe is looking to sell customers’ genetic data. Here’s how to delete it

Many 23andMe customers signed up to the genetic testing service in hopes of learning fun or interesting information about their past. But consumer advocates are now urging those users to request the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Normalization Keeps AI Numbers In Check

AI training and inference are all about running data through models — typically to make some kind of decision. But the paths that the calculations take aren’t always straightforward, and as a model ...