How have diversity, salaries, and the tools and algorithms used changed in the field of data science from 2017 to 2020? — Since 2017, the website Kaggle.com has performed an annual survey of data scientists and others interested in the field of data science and machine learning. The survey questions range from demographic questions, such as gender and level of higher education, to questions about programming languages, tools, and machine learning algorithms…

Explainability and ethics in machine learning and AI should be introduced to aspiring data scientists from the beginning — Following the exploding popularity in machine learning, deep learning, and AI in the past decade, there have been increasing reports of occasions where AI solutions are not providing the expected results or have unintended consequences. There have been numerous reports of bias in AI algorithms that adversely affect certain groups…