The battle is set: on one side stands data - ever growing, ever more important; on the other stands analytics technology - also continuously gaining speed and capabilities. We, as machine learning and data analytics [...]
It is no secret that data science can help to solve the most complex and pressing challenges that face today’s business leaders. There is even a growing awareness of analytics’ potential to improve the ways [...]
Booz Allen does not just have a data science team. Yes, we are proud of our industry leading, 600+ member group of data scientists; but that team is not evidence of our firm simply checking [...]
A guest post by Jessica Luo, Ph.D, Marine Biology and Fisheries at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. The most recent Paris conference on climate change, COP21, underscored how critical [...]
The 2015/2016 Data Science Bowl is scored using a relatively little-known statistic, the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS). A detailed mathematical explanation of CRPS is available here and on the Data Science Bowl Kaggle evaluation [...]
Practitioners and data scientists have developed their own jargon, such that communication and collaboration can prove difficult across domains. For example, doctors might find it difficult to communicate to data scientists why some data (e.g., [...]
Thanks to all who participated in our December 2015 #DataSciChat, and @KirkBorne for hosting. The data science community was well represented, with participants from around the globe ranging from newbies to distinguished experts interacting with [...]
Cardiac MRI data lends itself to pretty cool visualizations. Take this one for instance. This illustration shows three different hearts and conceptually walks through how a MRI can be used to assess heart disease. Today [...]
As data scientists, we look for stories within data. We use math, statistics, programming, and learning algorithms to uncover these stories. We love to discuss our explorations into data with those who will listen, but [...]
Dr. Brené Brown is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection. Her work uses qualitative research to explore the human connection. She dubs her qualitative research stories as “just data with a soul.” Her work [...]
