Action: Shop at only local women-owned (and minority-owned) businesses on International Women’s Day 2017. Anyone, anywhere, can join by making March 8th A Day Without a Woman, in one or all of the following ways: Women take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor Avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses). Wear RED in solidarity with A Day Without A Woman

A world with artificial intelligence was once science fiction, but is now the daily work of the software industry. From self-parking cars to business process automation and city planning to voice translation, artificial intelligence technology is transforming products and processes across industries. The goal of these technologies is to reduce…

Happy Holidays! 🎉🎄🎀 It’s that time of year when I hide inside, drink hot toddies, and throw all my personal data from 2015 into spreadsheets, notebooks, and distributed clusters to examine the year through data. Top 10 Bestselling Data Science Masters Books The Open Source Data Science Masters is the only open source and most popular Data…

I often hear data science leaders pose this question: Where should my data scientists sit? People generally agree on two ways to organize a team, Centralized: individuals are on a data science team, working with product teams on a per-project basis Distributed: individuals are on different product/engineering teams The stakes are high for getting this right…

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My father laid next to me in the snow, waiting for the flash in the night. I thought of being eight years old, crouched beneath a blanket in the bathroom, reading Ender’s Game by the red flashlight he’d handed me during a stargazing tour at Kitt Peak. Of squinting through…

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Experiments in Autodidactism — Question: In lieu of taking the next 3 years to do my Masters in Computer Science, can I learn everything I need in 6 months, on my own, internet in hand? Answer? Absolutely. Now I want to share what I did. I created the Open Source Data Science Masters, a forkable and community-owned DIY curriculum. For me, the profession makes perfect sense — Data Science marries technical systems, human behavioral questions, and a beautiful world of mathematics and statistics.

The strange ruing of Civic Hackathons — Amongst the politicians and technorati, we’ve spawned a strange argument about whether civic hackathons are “stupid.” But now apps contests are not just overdone – there are just so many of them – but actually are becoming counterproductive, turning off developers and governments. In fact, they are stupid. Let’s side-step…