by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 10, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Millions of research papers in Europe, previously behind journal paywalls, may soon become open for text and data mining, thanks to new legislation which will receive final approval in January. Academic researchers can rejoice. But if you’re a startup, getting...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 10, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Vision Critical has upgraded its Sparq Platform with the addition of text mining and sentiment analysis to its capabilities. The upgrade was part of Vision Critical’s push toward a deeper understanding of their clients’ customers through customer profiling,...
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 | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Analytics
With losses from food stamp fraud estimated to average around a billion dollars a year, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) commissioned the creation of an algorithm called ALERT to sift through millions of retail transactions to identify potentially fraudulent...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Saadia Muzaffar, founder of TechGirls Canada, has resigned from Sidewalk Toronto — a “smart city” project — over concerns about a Google-owned company which is now involved in the project. In her resignation letter from the Sidewalk Toronto...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Analytics, Civic Data & Tech
Just because modern data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques produce results, it does not mean that more traditional way of social science (i.e. custom data sets created for a specific study) should be discarded. Data science has its own blind spots. A...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
An order issued by the Interior Department that is ostensibly meant to increase transparency and accessibility of research data may end up restricting the use of science-based studies in the formulation of federal policy. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) claims...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Analytics
For all its effectiveness in processing huge amounts of archived information, data science is well-served by real-time, real-world inputs that adds a necessary ‘ground truth’ component that anchors the decision process in reality. The City of Waco, Texas has launched...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 8, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Federal investment in artificial intelligence (AI) research and development nearly topped $500 billion as far back as 2015. But the House subcommittee on information technology believes that even with the expenditure of that much money won’t be enough to maintain the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 8, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Mathematician D.J. Patil, the first chief data scientist for the US Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama, declared that city governments need the presence of data science champions in order to make smarter, more informed policy decisions. Here...
