The fourth quarter 2023 crime report from the FBI, the federal government’s keeper of crime data, is unreliable at best and deceptive at worst. The FBI’s preliminary 2023 data show murder declined by ...

Therefore, it is not only disappointing when federal agencies, tasked with providing that data, instead offer incomplete, misleading, and even inaccurate studies based not on evidence, but on the ...

It’s no surprise to anyone who works with data—it’s messy. In every industry and every business, there are data anomalies and issues that can impact the story data tells. If we have any hope of ...

Virtually all of the Army’s weapons are affected by delayed or backordered parts—and mismatched computer systems are largely to blame. And it’s only been a month since a new digital tool has started ...

When executives talk about cost, they usually mean capital, labor or raw materials. But there’s another line item quietly eating into profits: bad data. It doesn’t show up on the balance sheet. It ...