Data Science Archives

Data Science Literacy and Open Source Education for the Enterprise

Business + Management Conferences Data Science data science literacy literacy open source education West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 8, 2019

As a data scientist, one of your biggest struggles in your organization is probably communicating what you do (and what you can do) to the organization outside your data science team. If the departments around your data science team don’t understand how to frame the questions... Read more

Why is Silicon Valley Still the Go-To Place for Data Science and AI

Career Insights Data Science Data Science Jobs san francisco silicon valleyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 9, 2019

Be honest. How many articles have you read in the past week proclaiming the decline of Silicon Valley? What about the inevitable decline of San Francisco as if it were a fat empire slowly eating itself alive? There’s plenty to discuss about the flow of money... Read more

Adapting Machine Learning Algorithms to Novel Use Cases

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post Algorithms Data Science Machine Learning ODSC Westposted by Kirk Borne August 27, 2019

If there was a metric for success in the data science profession, it would require a multi-dimensional scoring model. This metric would cover a data scientist’s technical skills and talents, analytic literacies and ways of thinking, and soft skills and aptitudes. Soft skills include a collection... Read more

The Most Secure Safe in the World: Data Science and Data Engineering

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Business + Management Conferences data engineering Data Science data storageposted by Stephanie Kirmer August 19, 2019

Editor’s Note: If you’re interested in data storage, and the intersection of data science and data engineering, make sure to see Stephanie at ODSC West 2019, and watch her talk, “Integrating Elasticsearch with Analytics Workflows“ Bringing data science and data engineering together in service of business... Read more

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

Business + Management 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... Read more

8 Rising Stars of Data Science

Business + Management Data Science odsc west 2018posted by ODSC Team July 12, 2018

As data science and artificial intelligence advances at an exponential rate, it’s easy to focus on the results itself without thinking about the people that make it happen. It’s thanks to these data scientists that we’re able to see such rapid growth in the technology that... Read more

Guest Blogger Cezary Podkul discusses Keeping Governments Accountable with Open Data Science Blog Post

Blog Data Scienceposted by Open Data Science June 3, 2015

Doing open data science on government financials is not easy. A lot of the info is not, well, open. The good news is that data on government spending, borrowing, pensions and the like exists, but often lies hidden in bulky PDFs that are difficult to work... Read more

The Last Conference You Will Ever Attend

Blog Data Scienceposted by Open Data Science April 7, 2015

Visitors to this site are obviously no strangers to open source data science. Take R for example. R is the epitome of a successful open source project, having become one of the most popular languages for data analysis and used by millions. It is a thriving... Read more