It is amazing how much of the discussion of big data focuses on technology rather than data. In this article I will imagine a CIO thinking about data first and technology second. Such a CIO would make ...

The Factual’s algorithm will provide Yahoo consumers with an analysis of news stories by rating articles with a media bias and credibility score To date, The Factual has graded over 10 million news ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Factual, a location data company, announced today the availability of its high-quality Places data in AWS Data Exchange, a new service that makes it easy for millions of ...

Consider the following two statements of "belief": Devon believes that humans evolved from earlier primates over 100,000 years ago. Devon believes that humans were created less than 10,000 years ago.

NEW YORK—In a notable example of how some tech companies are working to provide consumers with tools that will help them find credible news sources and reduce the spread of disinformation, Yahoo has ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Factual, the location data company, today announced it raised $42 million from new and existing investors, with participation from Upfront Ventures and Felicis Ventures, ...

The goal of Factual is at once hugely ambitious and unexpectedly humble: to be the steward of the world’s information. That means amassing data on subjects about which people need data, standardizing ...

Big Data is great for geeks, but most normal people don’t get a kick out of looking at huge tables of data (Excel junkies excluded). Factual, which is an open database wiki, just added some tools to ...

Factual announced this morning that it has raised $42 million in new funding. The company launched in 2009 and now provides location data to customers like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and ...

Prior to launching the survey, researchers conducted a series of preliminary tests to determine how best to ask Americans to classify news-related statements. The purpose of these tests was to analyze ...

News consumers today are confronted with a tangle of statements and assertions that run the gamut from purely factual to purely opinion. Being able to quickly tell where a news statement fits on that ...