by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Science
DataCamp’s Chief Data Scientist David Robinson set out to use his tidytext package (co-authored with Julia Silge) to identify the author of the anonymous op-ed that appeared in the New York Times last week. Robinson catalogues the difficult problems he faced in his...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Science
The money is great and the jobs are sexy, so why do most data scientists spend several hours per week looking for new jobs? And why are 13 percent of data scientists actively looking to leave their current job? Many tech companies are failing their employees,...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Last week, Google unveiled a search tool that aims to consolidate all the different repositories on data all over the world into a single searchable database. Called Dataset Search, the search engine will index the fragmented datasets that institutions publish online....
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Fei-Fei Li, one of the most respected names in cloud-based AI, is leaving Google after less than two years at the company. She will be replaced by Andrew Moore, currently dean of the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Li is set to return to Stanford...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
The most productive area in the evolving governance of today’s mega-cities is at the intersection of predictive analytics and the explosion of data gather the Internet of Things (IoT). With an abundance of information at city administrators’ fingertips, a more...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
The European Union (EU) thrust into data privacy as embodied in the recently-promulgated General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR) will force a change in the way machine learning algorithms are made. A TechRepublic article quotes liberally from an O’Reilly survey of...