Government agencies are awash in documents. Many of these documents are paper-based, but even for the electronic documents a human is still often needed to process and understand those documents to ...

Software development is increasingly automated. The existence of shortcuts, reference architectures, rapid application development environment design tools and configuration management accelerators ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Knowing how to use data to report stories remains an in-demand skill for journalists across the globe, experts said during Brazil’s 12th Congress of Investigative Journalism. The event featured more ...

(1) A digital coding system for data in a computer. See ASCII and EBCDIC. (2) A coding system used to abbreviate data; for example, codes for regions, classes, products and status. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

JSON-LD is a scripting language that allows publishers to communicate important information to search engines. According to the official JSON-LD website: “Data is messy and disconnected. JSON-LD ...

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on your ...

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...