by CDO Review Staff | Oct 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Faced with much uncertainty at the start of a machine learning (ML) project, tech gurus Emmanuel Ameisen of Insight Data and Adam Coates of Khosla Ventures advise ML engineers to follow an ML Engineering Loop that will cycle through phases of analysis, approach...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Former Gates Foundation CDO Todd Pierce was awarded $4.9 million in damages after he was terminated from his job less than 17 months after being hired. And good news for the rest of us: the event serves as a case study for how not to hire a Chief Data Officer. Pierce,...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
North Dakota continued the overhaul of its statewide IT operations with the hiring of Dorman Bazzell as the state’s first chief data officer. Bazell’s appointment this month came on the heels of the elevation of Julie Cabinaw as “Chief Reinvention Officer” in July and...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Healthcare data analytics firm DataGen has appointed Kate Poglitsch as its new Chief of Analytics. In addition to her regular data analytics duties, Poglitsch will supervise DataGen’s healthcare-focused development of Medicare policy analytics and emerging healthcare...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Eileen Vidrine, a ten-year veteran of the US Army, has been selected as the Air Force’s new chief data officer. Vidrine had actually been serving as the Air Force’s chief data officer for the last four months but was only named to the post formally in October. Monica...
