by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Senator Ron Wyden (D) of Oregon has filed a bill that specifies steep fines and even 20-year prison terms for company officers whose firms violate the privacy of American citizens. The bill is unlikely to make it out of the Senate. John Brodkin reported on the...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Tools
As data science projects come under greater scrutiny from privacy advocates, the need for an easily accessible ethics checklist becomes apparent. DrivenData has launched Deon, a tool that provides actionable ethics reminders for data scientists. The default checklist...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
Big banks and tech firms are fighting each other in the effort to hire more data scientists. The result is higher average pay for data scientists, even for those fresh out of graduate school. The average Facebook data scientist brings home close to $200,000 annually...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Tools
When it comes to computational notebooks, Jupyter has become a dominant open-source web tool. Key to Jupyter’s rapid growth is its ability to converse in dozens of computer languages, among them Julia (Ju), Python (Py), and R, which form the basis for its name. A...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 19, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
William Vorhies asks if data scientists will still be useful in 2025 in this report from Data Science Central: … one driver remains the structural shortage of well trained and affordable data scientists. Hiring is still a problem so trying to do more with fewer DS...
