Do you ever feel as if the internet is following you? It is — at least some segments of it. Ads on Facebook and other websites will appear freakishly fast after a related Google search and stay in your line of …

By Claire Curry Imagine if we applied big-data analytics to social media to learn which methods of treatment cancer patients report as most effective. Picture the sweeping efficiencies we could realize if we could rapidly analyze existing pharmaceutical drug patents …

Some sectors of the economy, such as healthcare, are several years behind the curve in understanding and using big data analytics to improve their standing, a Gabelli School of Business professor told The Economist Executive Education Navigator blog recently. Professor RP …