by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 8, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
The UK government has quietly squashed a plan that would have required government departments to create a process by which ordinary citizens could question policy decisions aided by the use of “black box” algorithms. The internal processes of these algorithms are...
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 Analytics
‘Neuropolitics consultants’ say they know what’s on your mind, even if you’ve left it unspoken. Maria Pocovi, founder of the Emotion Research Lab (ERL), is using algorithms to identify voters’ unspoken feelings. This ability could start a revolution in...
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 | 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...
