In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Probabilistic models, such as hidden Markov models or Bayesian networks, are commonly used to model biological data. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust ...

Know how to get the most out of your predictive tools. by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan Most managers’ jobs involve making predictions. When HR specialists decide whom to hire, ...

Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait Iran sees its control over the Strait of Hormuz as critical leverage in peace talks, and seems willing to risk the cease-fire to ...

Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their activities. Myriad organizations rank companies on the performance of their ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

Irena Asmundson is the Managing Director of Ca. Policy Research Initiative at SIEPR and a former IMF staff member. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do ...