It is always helpful for students to read books, articles, blog posts, and anything else outside of formal textbook assignments to round out an education. Taking the initiative to read tangential works in data science is particularly helpful for students taking…
You might find yourself wondering if there’s a career you can possess combining the unique combination of sports and data science interests. The great news is there are plenty of sports-related job options for professionals with a…
The field of data science is growing at a rapid pace, with some roles growing by as much as 11.4 percent year over year. And there’s plenty of demand: by some metrics, there can be as many as 2.7 million job postings in data and…
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google demonstrated how machine learning algorithms that use neural networks may be fooled to give erroneous results. By targeting these algorithms with inputs specifically tuned to trick them,…
As I read Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction recently and reflected on it, I became increasingly alarmed that we haven’t been addressing the considerable ethical challenges our budding computer scientists and data scientists will…
Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction gives a provocative account of all the ways the big data push is harming us. O’Neil, a mathematician and author of the blog mathbabe.org, describes how some of today’s…
These days, when your charge card is compromised, your bank knows about it almost instantly. It uses sophisticated algorithms to detect anomalous behavior. If it notices that your charge card was used in Denver, but…
The field of Computer Science has gotten extremely broad. Long gone are the days when “Computer Science” meant simply “programming”. Programming is an essential tool for any computer scientist, regardless of their focus within the…
The two audio books I’ve listened to most recently are How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, and Facism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright. Not exactly spiritually uplifting choices, I’ll admit. Levitsky and Ziblatt explain how the…
On the eve of the 2016 Presidential Election, the controversy that FBI Directory James Comey sparked when he revealed that a new batch of emails related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server…