As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

Today, Google announced a change to Ad Rank, its ad serving calculation in AdWords that determines where your ad shows and how much you’ll pay per click. In addition to max CPC bid and quality score, ...

An industry or financial ratio compares sets of financial or other data within a company to measure its operating performance and financial condition. A company's management uses ratios to make key ...

Google has been accelerating the rollout of new Ad Rank thresholds since early May. Some advertisers have reported seeing shifts in AdWords CPCs since then — some minimal, some significant. Here’s a ...

School’s almost out for the summer. The swimming pools and ballgames beckon and so do students’ final report cards. The letter or number grades dictate honor roll status and, for high school students, ...

LAND O'LAKES — Who's No. 1? The way Pasco County high schools determine that might soon change. A proposal that goes to the School Board on Tuesday would count more courses in the district's ...

Most conventional quantitative methods from forecasting to optimization suffer from the existence of large outliers in the data. There are many responses to remedy this problem, from using ...

Last week SI launched its new SI World Golf Rankings, a data-driven list powered by Golf Intelligence. The calculations include new metrics to rank the best players in the world across all tours. This ...