Many of new businesses are relying on the wealth of data available to them to find new markets and develop targeted products. As data scientists, it is important to understand how startups are innovating ways to utilize data and how we can add to their current systems to improve them . Entrepreneur.com calls the current trend of new businesses, the “golden age of startups”. In other words, they’re going to need a lot of processing power from data scientists to succeed. Continue reading
When people think about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), they generally fall under two schools of thought. “The first one”, says guest speaker Dr. James Fan, “is that robots will start taking over the world and kill people and the other generally says that AI is awesome. The reality is that AI researches don’t think any of those two ways. There is a big disconnect.” Continue reading
Even if you aren’t learning how to code, it might seem like everyone else has. Companies have such a need for new talent in tech, you may have heard the various ways to go from rags to Ruby, from earthworm to Python. With a variety of free sources out on the web to learn from, people are still turning to a more expensive yet effective resource, the bootcamp. Continue reading