The Chinese military has formed a new data unit to help naval commanders make decisions – something that could be extended to other branches of the armed forces in future. A report in the official ...

High-throughput sequencing of PCR-amplified marker genes has grown explosively over the past decade, especially as a means of taxonomically profiling microbial communities. Increasing use of ...

The BBC’s Shared Data Unit won ‘Editorial Innovation of the Year’ at The Drum Online Media Awards 2020. Here, the team behind it reveals the challenges faced and strategies used to deliver this ...

The technical name of a frame of data transmitted over the data link layer (layer 2) in a communications network. Ethernet and Token Ring are examples of this layer. Many people neither use the term ...

How the work of the Shared Data Unit makes the headlines across the country. Research collated by the Birmingham-based Shared Data Unit is shared with more than 1000 print, online or broadcast news ...

More and more businesses are waking up to the importance of data as a strategic resource. Yesterday, research released by the Economist Intelligence Unit reported that 60% of the professionals they ...