A Fresno Unified School District clerical mistake highlights how easy it is to introduce significant errors into data, which then become part of the permanent state record. In 2019-20 and 2020-21, ...

As agencies enter a new White House-directed era of data sharing, an IRS watchdog is highlighting a cautionary tale involving the transfer of inaccurate tax information that may have impacted millions ...

Power Query often automatically adds a ‘Change Type’ step after loading data to try and assign data types to columns based on the first 1,000 rows. If your data includes inconsistent types, such as ...

Legal challenge to proceed against contentious £1bn project due to be built on former landfill site near London ...

Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly threats are actually caused by human error ...

The authors of a study that found black plastic utensils contain dangerous levels of flame retardants have revealed their calculations were off. The study was conducted by Toxic Free Future. According ...

Soon after the midterm elections, we began our regular process of evaluating how FiveThirtyEight’s forecasts performed. We quickly discovered an error: We were using out-of-date data for one important ...