Their community was still reeling from an incident where local police had murdered an unarmed black man. Protests grew as the public was outraged in the wake of a court decision to acquit the murderers. Then a crowd gathered in a major city as a local protest leader made a…

Sebastopol, California 2020-06-03 — Derwen, Inc., announces a new AI service for a novel form of risk analysis, addressing business needs during a time of heightened uncertainty to augment due diligence practices, while emphasizing resilience and ethical practices. First and foremost, our hearts go out to those who have been victims of illegal and…

Strategy notes for technology ventures during a “pseudo-jackpot” period subsequent to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. The following is a collection of personal notes. Most of these points compare personal reflections from previous economic crises w.r.t. the current pandemic. …

A curated list of dashboards for tracking the COVID-19 pandemic and related factors. Preface The following links provide dashboards and related resources for a number of different perspectives analyzing the global COVID-19 pandemic. Note that the more reliable sources tend to: cite data sources focus on per-capita estimates instead of absolute…

With so very many people on lockdown…in their homes…wondering what they can do…here’s a list about “Ways to do something” to help with responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: “Recovery Teams”: for any organization in which you’re involved, begin work now to put together a Recovery Team, which can plan and…

We’ve had a busy 2019 at NYU Coleridge Initiative and other organizations partnering on Rich Context. Now we’re announcing a machine learning competition, with full details at the https://github.com/Coleridge-Initiative/rclc repo on GitHub. This competition focuses on entity linking to infer from open access PDFs research publication about which datasets were…

Check out a recent post, “New initiative to help with discovery of dataset use in scholarly work” by Christian Zimmermann on the RePEc blog. TLDR: RePEc now takes annotations of research papers then asks authors to confirm dataset annotations inferred by machine learning models. That’s a human-in-the-loop approach for enhancing…

Our evening event at Rev conference this year will be Data Science in the Senses. That’s on Thursday, May 23 in NYC. Register today for Rev and use this code for a discount: PACORev25 — see the end of this article for more details about the conference. The Data Science…

This story was written as a capsule of advice to send to those who need it the most. Scenario: you’ve just arranged for an important introduction through email. Something like: well-connected VC: Hi XYZ, meet Joe. Can’t say enough great things about Joe. You two need to talk soon, I’m sure…