Before joining the Kenan Institute, Sarah Dickerson was a postdoctoral associate and lecturing fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where she taught graduate-level courses in statistics and social policy while performing research focused on housing insecurity and migration.
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NC State University announced Thursday the launch of its Data Science Academy, a universitywide interdisciplinary effort to enhance a historic strength of the university and meet the growing needs of data science research, education and expertise in North Carolina and beyond.
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The medical field increasingly is turning to data science to accelerate the path to meaningful discoveries in the lab and the clinic.
Read MoreIn an article today in The Daily Dot, I talked with writer Aaron Sankin about the proliferation of automated content in news stories. The article was inspired by a couple recent events. Two weeks ago, Karstad University’s Dr. Christer Clerwall published the findings of his study of automated content vs. human-written content in the 2014 volume of Journalism Practice. Dr. Clerwall used samples from Automated Insights’ StatSheet product (which Robbie Allen and I built over three years ago) to compare against actual journalist-written articles of the same NFL game. His conclusion: Not only is automated content virtually indistinguishable from...
Read More“Hi, my name is Joe. I run 4.1 miles a day at a 7:52 mile clip and I sleep 6.6 hours a night at 55.4% deep sleep. I have 435 friends, 1359 followers, and 1267 connections. I went to 136 places in 24 cities last year, and I drove an average of 32.6 miles a day to get there (at 42.2 miles per hour). In the last 30 days, I answered 28 questions, read 121 articles, and wrote another 12. I currently rank #7 in cool points, but also #3 in douchebaggery.” OK, so most of that is fake....
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