by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 10, 2018 | Data Science
Google’s newly-launched What-If Tool gives users the ability to analyze a machine learning (ML) model without having to write code for it. Given the increasing scrutiny leveled on the opaque nature of machine learning, the What-If tool will offer greater...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Data Science
A stable of data scientists were asked to name five of their most useful tools in persuading raw data to give up its secrets. Here are their answers (in quotes) as compiled by Ericka Chickowski on SearchBusinessAnalytics.com: 1. Python. “Not so much a distinct piece...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Data Science
New research from data analytics firm Exasol indicated that up to 82% of all organizations they surveyed are clueless about the location of their most important data. Locating and accessing dark data is now the main challenge facing enterprises migrating from basic...
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...
