Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, once famously said, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” It’s a century-old sentiment that still holds true today. Plato ...

What does 'big data' really mean? Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but its definition depends on who's doing the defining; AWS, IBM, and research firms each have their own definitions.

Here's how Google, and Google representatives, describe the data that Chrome does and does not take in, and what Google does with it if it gets passed back to headquarters.