Sentences with phrase «as a data scientist at»

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Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and «inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»

Michael Toth, a data scientist at fintech company Orchard, decided to do a sentiment analysis of the letters, comparing the number of negative words such as «loss,» «difficult,» «bad,» and «risk» with the number of positive words, such as «gains,» «top,» «excellent,» and «advantage.»

Take an incredible new suicide prevention tool dreamed up by Colin Walsh, a data scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and described by Quartz's Olivia Goldhill recently as an example.

At the center of the initiative is a website where «citizen scientists» can suggest problems that could potentially be addressed through emerging technologies, such as data analytics, satellite technologies, or the Internet of things, McCauley says.

As per these statistics, India needs at least 45,000 data scientists on an immediate basis.

In addition to his post as a senior data scientist at Google, the value investing community knows him for his side gig: hosting the Investing Talks -LSB-...]

«We see the effects of this at Scotiabank where we have a growing need for digitally savvy employees, such as specialized programmers, engineers and data scientists,» Porter said.

Foursquare's data scientists examined the foot traffic of a panel of U.S. users who have been active on the Foursquare City Guide or Foursquare Swarm apps (as well as partner apps) for at least the past year, have opted - in to provide background location awareness, and have visited at least one of the analyzed chains within the research time frame (January 2017 - December 2017).

The NASEM report, commissioned by Congress in 2016, collected career aspiration, training, and outcome data from NIH, research institutions, and professional societies, as well as solicited suggestions from individual university administrators and biomedical scientists at different stages of their careers.The report especially zeroed in on the plight of the postdoctoral research fellow.

One was Nathan VanderKraats, a former postdoc who told everyone how much he now enjoys his job as a data scientist and technical lead at... wait for it... Monsanto.

Just months earlier, he and Joshua Kalla, political scientists now at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and the University of California (UC), Berkeley, respectively, had exposed a study published by Science in 2014 as likely resting completely on fake data.

On further analysis of the data, the scientists concluded that dogs of various breeds with a similar adult weight had a tendency to grow at the same rate as one another.

The workshop — which will take place at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Macungie, PA from June 11 - 13, 2018 — will bring together scientists from allied disciplines in the basic and social sciences and engineering to address many issues involved in multi-sensory data science as applied to problems in materials research.

At a USDA research station near Amarillo, Tex., scientists are compiling data that encourage Funk and other farmers to use low - or no - till techniques (such as leaving crop residue to decompose), says Nolan Clark, station director and an agricultural engineer.

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

Today, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union here, scientists released a map of this glow (pictured, with data averaged from August to October of this year) as measured by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2.

But as science becomes increasingly competitive and dependent on interdisciplinary, collaborative projects, communication skills — from interacting with others to presenting data at seminars to writing papers and grants to networking — will be even more critical to a scientist's success.

Besides working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Meyer heads something called the DREAM challenges, contests that ask teams of computer scientists to solve outstanding biomedical problems, such as predicting the outcome of prostate cancer treatment based on clinical variables or detecting breast cancer from mammogram data.

As the lead computational scientist on the paper, Dr John Marioni at EMBL - EBI, said: «Making sense of the data generated in studies like this is only possible thanks to ongoing advances in computational biology.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

Such bases also offer scientists a chance to work daily at labs on the base, collecting and analyzing data using world class equipment and support staff among luxuries such as heat, air conditioning, high speed internet, and full - time cooks.

But opinions on the other practices were more variable, and many scientists provided explanations to justify when they had used practices such as deciding to collect more data after looking at their results or reporting only the experiments that produced the desired effects.

With the aid of powerful computers and sophisticated software at Cardiffs 3DLab — one of the first to specifically use 3D seismic data as a primary research tool — scientists can rotate, slice, dice and practically julienne rock formations to gain important glimpses into the planet's geologic past.

Based on data from the Wiimote, the scientists found that participants became more confident in their body language as they improved at the exercise.

Data from identical twins going back as far as the 1930s suggest that body weight is at least partly inherited, but only in recent years have scientists begun to appreciate the complexity of the genetic factors underlying obesity.

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.

Together with colleagues at IBM led by Scott Spangler, principal data scientist at IBM, the team initiated a research project to develop a knowledge integration tool that took advantage of existing text mining capabilities, such as those used by IBM's Watson technology (cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer.)

At Cornell University, an algorithm developed by computer scientists Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt deduced fundamental physical laws based on data from devices such as a pendulum and a mass on a spring.

She quoted Edward Holmes, a leading scientist at the HIV - sequencing laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, as saying that using viral genetic data for forensic science is much more complex than other techniques, such as DNA fingerprinting.

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute are studying New Horizons data to discover what's pumping up the nitrogen in Pluto's atmosphere, even as it escapes into interplanetary space.

Based on this work, a team of scientists from the University of Granada (Spain), the University of Uppsala (Sweden), the «Instituto de Quimica Fisica Rocasolano» (Madrid, Spain), the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and with data collected at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, located in Grenoble (France), explored and tested these notions using resurrected Precambrian β - lactamases as scaffolds for the engineering of completely new active sites.

«We know from a previous study based on OSDUHS data that as many as 20 per cent of adolescents in Ontario said they have experienced a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime,» said Dr. Robert Mann, senior scientist at CAMH and director of the OSDUHS.

At Philips Research, mathematicians also work on data encryption as well as data compression and signal processing, says Jan ter Maten, a senior scientist at the Philips site in Eindhoven, the NetherlandAt Philips Research, mathematicians also work on data encryption as well as data compression and signal processing, says Jan ter Maten, a senior scientist at the Philips site in Eindhoven, the Netherlandat the Philips site in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

A novel technique known as in - situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and better data for their experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

As researchers strive to unlock the secrets of the brain, they must do more to ensure that the huge amounts of data they generate are not locked up and inaccessible to other scientists who might glean additional insights from the data, speakers said at a 21 March symposium at AAAS.

According to the researchers, German and Japanese scientists often present data at open conferences that are treated as military secrets in the US.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

Poring over 12 years of detailed data, atmospheric scientists Joel Thornton at the University of Washington, postdoc Katrina Virts of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and their colleagues found lightning flashes occur nearly twice as often directly above heavily trafficked shipping lanes as they do elsewhere over the ocean.

The ASU team also includes the graduate students Christopher Kupitz, Chelsie Conrad, Jesse Coe, Shatabdi Roy - Chowdhury, who worked on the growth and biophysical characterization of the PYP crystals at ASU and on site at LCLS, the graduate students Daniel James and Dingjie Wang, who worked on sample delivery as well as the research scientist Nadia Zatsepin and the graduate student Shibom Basu, who worked on «on the fly» data evaluation.

The study, which used remote sensing images as well as field data, was coordinated by Farouk El - Baz, a geomorphologist who runs the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University in the US, and carried out by scientists from the Kuwaiti Institute for Scientific Research (KISR).

The fog around the largest AIDS vaccine study ever conducted began to lift today, as Thai and U.S. researchers for the first time publicly presented a detailed analysis of their data to over 1000 scientists gathered here at an annual meeting.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

In today's computer chips, memory management is based on what computer scientists call the principle of locality: If a program needs a chunk of data stored at some memory location, it probably needs the neighboring chunks as well.

The OSSP was designed at the Lab to help local land stewards manage their properties with students who, as «citizen scientists,» learn about the scientific process while going out to the field to collect useful data.

As long - time research director at Washington - DC based Environmental Working Group, she led a diverse team of scientists and programmers to create online, data - driven guides to chemicals in tap water, sunscreen, cosmetics, bottled water, and other common consumer products.

Using the limited data at our disposal, scientists have recently speculated that as many as one hundred million exoplanets in our galaxy alone may host complex forms of life.

As part of the World Weather Attribution (WWA) team CPDN scientists have looked at observational data and model simulations, including weather@home to identify whether and to what extend human - induced climate change influenced the likelihood and magnitude of this extreme event.

Computer scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have rolled out the MeDICi Integration Framework, a middleware platform (computer software that connects software components or applications) that makes it easy to integrate separate codes into complex applications that operate as a data analysis pipeline.

Minorities Affairs Committee Travel Awardees and other minority scientists present their research data at the Minorities Poster Session as well as at their regularly scheduled poster session.