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How City Governments Can Establish an Effective Data Infrastructure

Accelerate AIposted by Paxtyn Merten October 8, 2018

If a city government wants to become data-driven, it can’t make its workforce pull the extra weight. That’s why City of San Diego Chief Data Officer Maksim Pecherskiy was hired in late 2014. Pecherskiy helped build the city’s data portal to make government data available and easily usable for programmers,... Read more

Give Unicorns a Break, It’s Time for Data Science Teams

Accelerate AIposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC October 5, 2018

We’ve all heard of the highly sought-after breed of data scientist described as a unicorn. Many companies continue to seek for these mythical creatures. When building up your company’s data science capabilities, should you hold out for a unicorn or create groups of specialists who can work together as... Read more

How Data Scientists Can Enable Small Businesses to Utilize Their Data

Accelerate AI Conferencesposted by Paxtyn Merten October 4, 2018

There were 6 million businesses in the United States in 2016. Industry giants like Walmart and Amazon have hundreds of thousands or millions of employees on their own. Still, only 0.3 percent of U.S. companies have more than 500 employees. The vast majority — 79 percent — have fewer... Read more

Where’s Humanity’s Algorithm to Solve Poverty?

Accelerate AI Data Science for Good MITposted by Brandon Dey, ODSC October 3, 2018

What if I told you a tool exists to make you infinitely more resourceful — MacGyver or Horatio Alger level resourceful — so your earnings potential ratchets way up; the tool recommends what you should do today, tomorrow, or three years from now to achieve your most important goals,... Read more

A Look at Data Science Research Institutes in Europe

Accelerate AIposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC October 1, 2018

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fields of increasingly growing interest by the private sector, yet they’re still led by academia. Maybe not surprisingly, research institutes in Europe and big tech companies are also rapidly developing the field. In this article, we intend to mention some of the research... Read more

Meet Aurora – Finland’s AI Assistant Answer to Siri and Alexa

Accelerate AI Government AI AI|Artificial Intelligence Governmentposted by Alex Amari September 19, 2018

In December 2017, Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment released its first report outlining the country’s artificial intelligence strategy, “Finland’s age of artificial intelligence – Turning Finland into a leading country in the application of artificial intelligence.” Authored by a steering committee of leading Finn economists and technologists,... Read more

9 Reasons Why You Should Go To a Career Fair

Accelerate AI Career Insights Conferences Career Fair Jobs ODSC London ODSC Westposted by Alex Landa, ODSC September 10, 2018

Tech companies have been known to ask… interesting…questions during interviews, such as the famous “How many golf balls can you fit in a school bus?” (It’s 660,000, apparently.) Whether it’s at Google, Facebook, Apple, or another company hiring for a data science position, you can bet that the interview(s) will be... Read more

What Are the Best European Cities for Jobs in Data Science?

Accelerate AI Career Insights AI careers Data Science europe jobs in data scienceposted by Jacquelyn Elias, ODSC September 7, 2018

Within the past few months, European cities have entered the global stage to compete in an artificial intelligence (AI) arms race with tech hubs in the United States and China. While the high concentration of innovative companies in Silicon Valley or the busy streets lined with Fortune 500 companies... Read more

How Businesses Can Use AI to Automate Predictive Modeling

Accelerate AIposted by Alex Amari September 6, 2018

In business, the value of being able to accurately predict outcomes – asset failures, market fluctuations, or customer churn, for example – can scarcely be understated. The growth of data analytics in business in recent years is largely attributable to growing demand for predictive modeling. Today, artificial intelligence is... Read more

The Importance of Explainable AI

Accelerate AI AI Artificial Intelligence explainable AIposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC September 6, 2018

AI algorithms can be trained to perform many disparate tasks, but these systems often are opaque and operate in a black box, meaning users don’t always know how decisions are being made. AI-powered systems, frequently using deep learning methods, can be given extraordinarily complex tasks and can make great... Read more