Earlier this year, we got a look at something unusual: the results of an internal investigation conducted by Harvard Business School that concluded one of its star faculty members had committed ...

AveXis, the gene therapy subsidiary of Swiss pharma giant Novartis, was aware of “data manipulation” involving its Zolgensma gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy before it was approved in May, but ...

Drugmaker Novartis’ gene therapy subsidiary has fingered two former executives as the culprits in a recent scandal over manipulation of data for its approved gene therapy. The Basel, Switzerland-based ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Two weeks ago, I spoke on a panel at the Association of American ...

Businesses need to take steps to reduce the risks posed by hackers who can manipulate machine learning data, experts warn. Data manipulation, such as changing pixels in an image, could be used to ...

Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated. Palmer, a Republican from Alabama, cited the ...

GLENDALE, Colo. — A deputy director for the state health department’s water quality lab resigned as they were about to be punished for not acting on information about a chemist who manipulated data, ...

If you work with data much, you don’t need a statistical model to predict that the odds of consistently getting data in the format you need for analysis are pretty low. Those who do a great deal of ...

When Novartis’ Zolgensma data manipulation problem first went public last August, an angry FDA said it would consider civil or criminal penalties. But it looks like neither of those is going to happen ...

After covering a recent session on data munging with Excel, I wanted to see how those tasks could be accomplished in R. Surely anything you can do in a spreadsheet should be doable in a platform ...