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On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a decisive—and surprising—victory in Georgia. Hubbard was elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission, the body that ...

Executives today are swimming in data but starving for insight. Reports and metrics flow endlessly across every device, yet few leaders possess the capacity to turn these numbers into a true market ...

The US government has reopened following its longest-ever shutdown, setting the stage for the eventual release of the gold-standard federal data that is crucial in analyzing the health and trajectory ...