In case you missed it…
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Open Data Week overview in New York City [progrss.com]
The first week of March was open data. Open Data Week is an internationally celebrated event where people and organizations get together to discuss the importance of keeping data accessible to the public. Check-in to see what events happened around you to see how you can get involved.
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White House budget cuts for Environmental Protection Agency put data collection and historical records in danger [Washington Post]
The republican spending plan was released this month, which ultimately increases military spending and slashes funding for public services. Activists organized in opposition of federal spending cuts to the EPA by organizing data rescues that make a digitized backup of public records.
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Librarians and ‘hacktivists’ work to protect and secure federal data [Houston Chronicle]
The Houston Chronicle documented the community heroes working to protect our data from deletion.
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Google will buy Kaggle the online community that runs competitions for data scientists [Tech crunch]
The search engine, Google, establishes its presence in, data science, another area relating to the gathering an understanding of information.
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Yale will join other large universities in the competition for providing a post-grad data science program [Yale News]
New York University, Harvard, and Columbia already have Master’s programs in data science. The question remains if they will remain successful under competitive pressure from bootcamps.
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Back to Basics: The Wall Street Journal defines the role of a data scientist [The Wall Street Journal]
Always good to know what the public thinks the role of data scientists is.