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 | Procurement
Two sub-contractors have been accused of defrauding an unnamed government agency by selling defective body armor. The total haul from the fraud: a whopping $3,500. Jane Musgrave reports in the Palm Beach Post: “Dan Thomas Lounsbury Jr., owner of Tactical Products...
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 | Procurement
Thomas Brock is a middle-aged white man in good health. So how was he awarded $350 million in contracts pegged for disabled veterans, minorities and women? Prosecutors haven’t released the details yet, but they say Brock had no qualms about using fronts for...
by CivicMeter Staff | Sep 14, 2018 | Procurement
Politics aside, Brett Kavanaugh’s ongoing confirmation has implications for government contractors. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, might be the key vote in the overturning of the Auer Doctrine, which has long been a pain in the side for suppliers to government. Here...
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 13, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Experts in government data use policy recommend that the use of information systems should be geared more toward the needs of frontline workers instead of the people at headquarters. Real-time granular data and integrated data systems that deliver information in...
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...
