Tag: data without borders
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Data Without Borders is now DataKind
The Non-Profit Organization Data Without Borders has renamed itself to DataKind. Here is the official announcement. DataKind is an organisation that matches data from non-profit and government organisations with data scientists. DataKind hosts weekend DataDives and they are planning to build a DataCorps. See a previous post, Use Data Science to Help The World, to…
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Data Scientists: The New Rock Stars of the Tech World
Data Scientists: The New Rock Stars of the Tech World. Troy Sadkowsky of DataScientists.net conducted a very nice interview with Jake Porway of the NY Times R&D Lab and Data Without Borders. Here are some of the questions that got answered. Why Data Scientists are Tech’s Rock Stars? What does a Data Scientist do? How…