Civis Analytics is a US data science software and consultancy company founded by Dan Wagner in 2013, with backing by Eric Schmidt. Wagner had served as the Chief Analytics Officer for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. Civis Analytics helps businesses "understand their data, use that data to make predictions, and get recommendations on what steps to take next". Civis works with Fortune 500 companies and the country's largest organizations, including Verizon, Airbnb, Discovery, FEMA, Boeing and the American Red Cross. In 2020, the company faced controversy for firing employee David Shor after he tweeted a short summary of an academic paper by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeton University. Wasow's study contended that nonviolent protests had historically been more effective at driving political change than violent protests, which led some critics to argue that Shor's tweet could be interpreted as criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. After the firing, Civis Analytics initially released a statement claiming that had not fired any employees for tweeting academic papers, but later retracted that statement and replaced it with a new statement that omitted that claim. In 2021, Wasow was quoted as having concluded from his conversations with Civis Analytics and Shor that "at the heart of it was how [Shor] was treated on Twitter by people who essentially shot the messenger"; Wasow dismissed accusations of racism or otherwise acting improperly as "baseless". Eleven employees were laid off on October 30, 2020. In December, seven of them filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB for wrongful termination. In July 2021, the NLRB dismissed the claim. (Wikipedia).
Jupyter Notebooks and the Road to Enabling Data-Driven Teams
It’s not enough just to give data scientists access to Jupyter notebooks in the cloud. Skipper Seabold (Civis Analytics), Lori Eich (Civis Analytics) argue that to build truly data-driven organizations, everyone from data scientists and managers to business stakeholders needs to work in co
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The Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Centre for International Research meetings in Mathematics) was created in 1981 by the French mathematics community and has become an increasingly popular destination. It provides all the facilities and equipment that conference organize
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O'Reilly Webcast: Lean Analytics 201 - Five Lessons Beyond the Basics
During the first part of this exclusive webcast event we welcome Eric Ries (@ericries) author of New York Times bestseller "The Lean Startup" for a fireside chat with Alistair Croll (@acroll) and Ben Yoskovitz (@byosko) authors of "Lean Analytics" to learn the story behind "Lean Analytics"
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Data Science - Part XI - Text Analytics
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Rick Schultz interviewed at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012
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Strata Data Awards: Winners Announced
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(phi,Gamma)-modules and locally analytic vectors
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Bayesian data interpretation with large scale cosmological (...) - Jasche - Workshop 2 - CEB T3 2018
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La mission locale - Sarah Mazouz
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10b Data Analytics: Spatial Continuity
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Linear Algebra - Lecture 16 - Characterization of Linearly Dependent Sets
In this lecture, we will start proving some theorems that let us characterizing when a set of vectors is linearly dependent or linearly independent.
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Philippe Michel - Some applications of trace functions to analytic number theory
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Local Langlands correspondence and Weil restriction by Anne Marie Aubert
PROGRAM : ALGEBRAIC AND ANALYTIC ASPECTS OF AUTOMORPHIC FORMS ORGANIZERS : Anilatmaja Aryasomayajula, Venketasubramanian C G, Jurg Kramer, Dipendra Prasad, Anandavardhanan U. K. and Anna von Pippich DATE & TIME : 25 February 2019 to 07 March 2019 VENUE : Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Banga
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Nicolas Rougerie: Mathematical topics around fractional quantization - lecture 2
The 1983 discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect marks a milestone in condensed matter physics: systems of “ordinary particles at ordinary energies” displayed highly exotic effects, most notably fractional quantum numbers. It was later recognized that this was due to emergent quasi
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