The prospect of living on as data is changing the way we think about death On March 19, Anna Sergeeva, … Continue reading “Virtual mortality: what happens to our online selves when we die?”

Business intelligence was usually associated with big corporate businesses, in times when this process required vast human resources and expensive … Continue reading “7 Benefits of Business Intelligence for SMEs”

Artificial intelligence experts welcome the launch of the Elon Musk-backed venture, but open algorithms are only the first step OpenAI … Continue reading “OpenAI won’t benefit humanity without data-sharing”

 Richard Barnes IT WAS AN unseasonably warm December, and somewhere nearby a rising tide in the San Francisco Bay was lifting … Continue reading “One Startup’s Struggle to Survive Silicon Valley’s Gold Rush”

UK companies often complain there is too little engineering prowess in the UK. The talent is there – if you know where to … Continue reading “Engineers, designers and developers: how to hire the best talent in the UK”

You are a fully-equipped (or aspiring) data scientist and want to use your precious skills for solving problems that really … Continue reading “The Definitive Guide to Do Data Science for Good”

The technology field is known for job growth, opportunity and often enviable salaries, but are the numbers doing the job for … Continue reading “CIOs “Tech-Spectations” for 2016: Quick Hiring Tips for Decision Makers”

There are several reasons why everyone isn’t using Bayesian methods for regression modeling. One reason is that Bayesian modeling requires … Continue reading “R Users Will Now Inevitably Become Bayesians”

In my talk at ODSC West I wanted to start a conversation about what if any value the idea of … Continue reading “Towards Cloud Native Data Science”

Microsoft deliver on their promises, handsomely! At the SQL PASS Summit in October, James Phillips made a promise that everything … Continue reading “Microsoft deliver on their promises, handsomely!”

Since 2004, Netflix employees have taken as many vacation days as they’ve wanted. They have the freedom to decide when … Continue reading “Why Everyone Should Have Unlimited Vacation Days”

I did some SSIS development this week where we had to run a number of instances of a package in … Continue reading “Don’t trust row counts in BIDS during parallel execution”

When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like … Continue reading “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”