Sharing data on Italy’s mid-pandemic internet outage
As a data engineer at Mozilla, my colleagues and I study how internet connectivity changes over time and across regions. Like inclement weather, network outages are simply a fact of … Read more
Articles in “Data Science”
Opening data to understand social distancing
As researchers work to understand and hopefully control the covid-19 pandemic, collaboration and sharing of data is essential. Organizations like Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering and … Read more
Improving privacy without breaking the web
First: thank you to our passionate and active Firefox users who participated in this shield study! tl;dr – The Firefox Privacy team ran a user research study to learn how … Read more
Add-on recommendations for Firefox users: a prototype recommender system leveraging existing data sources
By: Alessio Placitelli, Ben Miroglio, Jason Thomas, Shell Escalante and Martin Lopatka. With special recognition of the development efforts of Roberto Vitillo who kickstarted this project, Mauro Doglio for massive … Read more