Data analysis

​According to the independent web analytics company StatCounter, Google's Android has edged out Windows to become the most popular operating system in the world, in terms of total internet usage across desktop, laptop, tablet and phone use combined.

The time required to analyze a human genome for disease-causing variations has been reduced from weeks to mere hours with new software called Churchill. The developers, a research team at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, found that it's also now feasible to do large-scale population analysis.

Data scientists in Colombia have have developed a computer model that can work out what crops work best under specific weather conditions. They have advised rice farmers not to plant crops, saving millions of dollars.

A new software system is able to determine the visual elements that are unique to a given city.

The Fitbit personal activity monitor is now being shipped to a backlog of customers, so we take a closer look at what exactly the device does