by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 8, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Just because your competitors are falling over each other in hiring data scientists doesn’t mean you have to grab the next one that walks in off the street. Stephen Gatchell, head of data governance at Bose Corporation, says that organizations must first figure out...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 8, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Every 22 days, the number of people killed in the US by opioid-induced overdoses exceeds the number of people killed in September 11, 2001 attacks by Al-Qaeda in New York and Washington D.C. Meanwhile, the Council of Economic Advisers reported in November 2017 the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
They say you can never be too rich or too thin (don’t know about that!) but you can definitely have too much data. If your firm is accumulating more data that you can process, then you must reconsider your data management strategy. Data storage cost money and hoarding...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Science
Some algorithms look dangerously similar to that monster stumbling around England… Andrew Smith writes in The Guardian: “Here’s the problem. Between the “dumb” fixed algorithms and true AI lie the problematic halfway house we’ve already entered with scarcely a...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Science
Big data has the answers. Lots of good ones, and lots of bad ones, too. Sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff requires disciplines from outside the realm of data science. Bill Luker writes in the Predictive Analytics Times: Big data is and has been less easy...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Science
A movement called Open Science has been stirring debate in the scientific community about whether raw scientific data should be made available to everyone who wants to use it. Better data makes for better science. But the issue isn’t so simple. Data has monetary...
