Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...

Building a chemical plant. Developing an airline route. Modeling the shapes of proteins. Each of these actions requires optimization algorithms – the combination of math and theory translated into ...

Networks – whether biological networks of cells, financial networks of markets, or social networks of friends and colleagues – play a large role in our lives. But understanding and controlling the ...

Isolating ranking factors to see how changes affect ranking has always been the basis of algorithm testing. After updates like Panda and Penguin, reverse engineering and even intentionally triggering ...