Much of the evaluation and tuning of a search system relies on relevance labels---
annotations that say whether a document is useful for a given search and searcher. Ideally …

Context As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software
developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and …

Obesity and other nutrition-related non-communicable diseases were virtually non-existent
before the advent of industrialized food production. In recent years, a 5-color front-of …

Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by
experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate …

The term big data is currently a buzzword in social science, however its precise meaning is
ambiguous. In this paper we focus on administrative data which is a distinctive form of big …

Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing
numbers of publications each year and shifting publishing patterns. However, the metrics …

The purpose of this White Paper of the EU Support Action “Visioneer”(see www. visioneer.
ethz. ch) is to address the following goals: 1. Develop strategies to quickly increase the …

A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-
being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to …

In pursuit of public accountability, the mechanisms for assessing research performance have
become more complicated and burdensome. In the United Kingdom, the Research …

How can individuals best be encouraged to take more responsibility for their well-being and
their environment or to behave more ethically in their business transactions? Across the …