Sentences with phrase «as a data scientist in»

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And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

So, IBM's strategy is to use Watson, armed with its super-computing abilities and artificial intelligence, to help give doctors and scientists in the research process an informed «second opinion» by scouring the available data, as Rhee puts it.

As they walked, the two of them — Ibex's director and chief data scientist — were on the phone with a client and in passing mentioned rare, so - called black - swan events.

The next big jump in data storage could take the form of the DNA inside all organic matter: Scientists in labs across the country are experimenting with synthetic DNA as a storage medium.

The world offers very few places where scientists can study whole ecosystems in a remote location aided by an excellent research facility as well as decades of baseline data, adds Elser.

June 2014 — Facebook data scientists publish a study detailing the results of an experiment on nearly 700,000 users to determine whether showing them more positive or negative sentiment posts in the News Feed would affect their happiness levels (as deduced by what they posted).

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-...]

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).

As a group of data scientists, analysts and strategists who build marketing strategies, we work in some similar ways to Cambridge Analytica.

Deep Root Analytics, the Republican data firm which created and maintained the exposed data warehouse, was co-founded in 2013 by Alex Lundry, a Republican campaign data scientist who had served as data director in Mitt Romney's unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign.

With just over 70 employees in Ottawa, Canada, as well as in Pune, India, we will continue to grow our team — adding developers and data scientists, expanding our quality and operations teams, hiring UX specialists and digital marketing staff, and building our support and success teams to be available to our customers throughout the world.

For comparison, a definite «discovery» would not be acceptable scientifically below a confidence levelof 5 σ, and so for the time being the CERN scientists are keen to downplay the results and look towards obtaining much more data in 2012 so as to make a more definitive assessment by the end of the year.

Apparently there are two thoughts as to how devistation will come to us in the near future: Apocalyptic disaster brought forth by the grace of God, or climate data which has been continually compiled and interpreted by climate scientists since the 1960s.

This fifth approach is implied in the earlier suggestion that the scientist responds as a free person to a total situation which includes God, human needs, and technical data.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

Based in large part on data provided by Mass Audubon's citizen scientists, the Eastern Whip - poor - will was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts.

The information collected will no doubt be particularly valuable once it's cross-referenced with satellite imagery and measurements, as well as with data on water quality and such collected by scientists working in the Gulf and on the coast.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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.

Knowledge co-production typically means frequent and direct communication between scientists and the public participants, and may require some flexibility in your methodology or workflow, as well as data sharing and transparency.

Goswami agreed with an audience member that data scientists could learn from the field of medical ethics and the institutional review boards that oversee issues such as informed consent in clinical research.

As the use of big data becomes increasingly effective and popular, more universities are forming groups and subgroups that focus on big data problem solving, which in turn is spurring the creation of new employment opportunities for scientists with expertise in this arena.

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.

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.

Scientists fashioned a tiny crystal that stores snippets of quantum information — which unlike computer data «bits» that come only in 0s and 1s, can also exist as both 0 and 1 simultaneously.

As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»

Wilson, a veterinarian and research scientist who describes himself as «an equipment geek,» began collecting data in 2011 on cheetah chases (SN: 7/13/2013, p. 9).

Moreover, as a good scientist, Butz closed with a plea for more data «in order to know whether shortages of scientists and engineers are in fact developing and whether strategies to encourage their production are succeeding.»

Scientists hope to answer that question as more data come in.

John Baker of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland told New Scientist: «These help us to build expectations for the observations and to begin planning data analysis strategies for the detectors as well as to help us design future improved simulations.»

As this colliding material circles closer into the black hole, it heats up, eventually giving off X-ray emissions, which can lag behind the optical emissions, similar to what the scientists observed in the data.

Nanoplasmonic materials have attracted the attention of biologists, chemists, physicists and material scientists, with possible uses in a diverse array of fields, such as biosensing, data storage, light generation and solar cells.

After 20 years of research and almost as many years fighting industry groups in court for control of their data, government scientists can finally publish two papers showing that underground miners exposed to diesel fumes have a threefold increased risk for contracting lung cancer.

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.

Sophie Pelisson loves her job as a data scientist for Frateli Lab, a Paris - based R&D organization promoting equal opportunities in education.

Several of these are expected to «go dark» in the next two years, robbing scientists of critical data needed for monitoring climate change and verifying international agreements, just as a critical mass of global players is agreeing that such agreements are essential to the future health of the world's people and economies.

«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.»

He made a series of statements in a 1978 Science paper that are startling given his role as a spokesperson for science: ``... unconscious or dimly perceived finagling, doctoring, and massaging are rampant, endemic, and unavoidable in a profession [science] that awards status and power for clean and unambiguous discovery»; «unconscious manipulation of data may be a scientific norm»; «scientists are human beings rooted in cultural contexts, not automatons directed toward external truth».

The self - efficacy scale, for example, can be used as either a reflection tool or as a tool to collect data across time to document changes in scientists» self - efficacy that would be expected to result from science communication training programmes.

Scientists have presented an algorithm in which distributed agents — such as robots exploring a building — collect data and analyze it independently.

Aragon's efforts, Aldering says, took the scientists from a «state of paralysis» to a point where they were able to analyze the data as it came in.

This new technique will allow scientists to derive useful information from and compare the hundreds of thousands of data sets obtained using legacy equipment as well as data sets obtained from biological samples preserved in paraffin blocks and partially - degraded samples.

Today, MD Anderson urges all its scientists to fingerprint new cell lines as soon as they arrive in the lab and before publishing any data, and to complete an annual revalidation of all lines in their laboratories.

The analysis of the data showed that the diamonds had chromite, phosphate, and iron - nickel sulfides embedded in them — what scientists refer to as «inclusions.»

As the Canadian government scientists note in the Fisheries Oceanography paper: «The 2010 phenomenal run... may forever remain an enigma due to the lack of precise ecological and chemical data.»

To improve the current culture, the team argues that increased data sharing will allow more diverse people to actively participate in research, such as early - career scientists and those from underrepresented groups; scientists from smaller or historically less - influential institutions; citizen - scientists; and scientists from the Global South, scientists from Africa, South and Central America, and much of Asia who are often excluded from leading research.

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.

Only 24 percent had been given the opportunity to participate in a citizen science - type field campaign, which is defined as the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically in collaboration with professional scientists.

For 36 months, scientists tracked 4175 yellow taxis and 12,525 blue taxis from the same Singapore - based fleet; they also used 3 months of data from more than 3000 drivers» GPS logs to rule out differences in driving speed, number of stops, and distance covered as confounding factors.