by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Data Science
Moogsoft CEO Phil Tee likened the pursuit of data by enterprises to a Ponzi scheme. “The more data you have, the more data you need to understand the data you have,” said Tee who also claimed that “more data means less understanding.” Tee said that the...
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 10, 2018 | Data Science
Confluent Platform 5.0 can now link data streaming and analytics together with a simpler interface that does not need Java developer support. SearchDataManagement reports on the platform update that was released July 31: “Confluent Platform 5.0’s support for...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Data Science
The latest quarterly update to the Alteryx Analytics Platform has provided data scientists more options in data visualization. Released on August 28, Alteryx 2018.3 features added functionalities like a Python tool that allows developers to write in Jupyter Notebook...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Data Science
Employers in the U.S. need more data scientists than exist. At least, that’s true for most major U.S. cities. Cleveland and Minneapolis are among the few cities with surplus data scientists — although it may not remain that way for long. An excerpt from...
