As part of our mini-series on programming languages, Dolly Setton makes the case for Python being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.

By THE DATA TEAM “I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming ...

Luxand's FaceSDK has proven its prowess in the recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT), delivering remarkable outcomes. Notably, it ranked ...

This data-collection program led to its well-known automatic face-tagging service. But it also helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash of biometric face-recognition data in the ...