Image maps are pictures (graphics or characters) that have clickable hot spots. Big deal, eh? By now you know that graphics and characters can be hyperlinks, so who needs a clickable image map? Well, ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

A project to create a comprehensive graphical representation of the internet in just one day and using only a single computer has already produced some eye-catching images. Barrett Lyon, a networking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The terms “big data” and “massive data analytics” likely conjure ...