Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

Abstract: In this paper, we leverage unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance mobile crowd sensing (MCS) by addressing two critical challenges: uncontrollable data quality and inevitable unsensed ...

Systematic sampling is straightforward and low risk, offering better control. However, it may introduce sampling errors and ...

For a project in Bangladesh, Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak and his team used machine-learning models applied to mobile phone records ...

Abstract: With the advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, both the methods of data collection by citizen data collectors and the willingness of citizens to share data are evolving. To ...

Introduction The importance of conducting qualitative research alongside clinical trials of complex healthcare interventions is well established. There are various ways in which these two ...

Online identity must shift from storing customer data to requesting verifiable proofs. zkTLS turns verification into a yes or no proof, not a document upload, which ties back to the goal of proof over ...

Investigative needs differ across legal contexts, requiring distinct approaches to mobile data collection in criminal and civil cases. Overcollection of smartphone data leads to increased risk, ...

Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which ...

The Labor Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday announced an audit into the challenges faced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in collecting data for its inflation and labor market reports ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that last week’s jobs report “was rigged” without providing any evidence. But former Labor Statistics ...

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists ...