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...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Big data has the answers. Lots of good ones, and lots of bad ones, too. Sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff requires disciplines from outside the realm of data science. Bill Luker writes in the Predictive Analytics Times: Big data is and has been less easy...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Fei-Fei Li, one of the most respected names in cloud-based AI (artificial intelligence) is leaving Google after less than two years at the company. She will be replaced by Andrew Moore, currently dean of the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Li is set to...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 17, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
A movement called Open Science has been stirring debate in the scientific community about whether raw scientific data should be made available to everyone who wants to use it. Better data makes for better science. But the issue isn’t so simple. Data has monetary...
