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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...