Sentences with phrase «such as data scientists»

This is effectively a growing fusion of workplace and service, reflected in widespread plans to hire new skills such as data scientists and digital information officers.

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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.

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.»

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.

Banks are doing what they can to keep their research products relevant, such as employing more data scientists to support research from traditional stock analysts.

«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.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

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.

Like scientists, babies draw conclusions from physical data, and even statistical analyses, such as when they experiment with what will prompt a smile or positive response from their caretakers.

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.

However, so far FiveThirtyEight has not done any predictions on the Brexit, so the choice has narrowed down to pure socio - economic models (without taking account of any polling data — so quite different from Silver) such as the one done by the political scientist Matt Qvortrup.

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.

Automatic identification has already been successfully tried out on other species, such as zebras, by scientists working on Wildbook, the wildlife - data platform where the shark tool will be hosted.

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.

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.

HealthPartners Research Foundation and the University of Minnesota surveyed several thousand scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health, and a third of the respondents anonymously admitted to one of 10 serious ethical lapses, such as fabricating data or plagiarizing.

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.

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

Citizen scientists will be enlisted to collect data on birds and aquatic insects for Jackson's project, which seeks to quantify how contaminants such as mercury move through the food chain: from aquatic insects to the riparian birds that feed upon them.

With the development of new methods such as the one described by Uribe - Convers and colleagues, scientists can obtain large, phylogenomic data sets for large numbers of taxa.

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.

When attributing information to scientists, the textbooks used verbs such as believe, think or propose, but rarely were scientists said to be drawing conclusions from evidence or data.

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.

«It shows that scientists can use data assimilation to better understand various components and behaviors occurring inside the volcano,» such as the geometry of its magma chamber and the rate of magma flow inside that reservoir, Bato explains.

Barring that expensive and time - consuming effort, there are mathematical tests that scientists can perform to determine if the results from a set of studies might be the result of questionable research practices such as publication bias or P - hacking — mining data to uncover significant differences.

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 coSuch 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 cosuch 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.

Bray says the falling cost of genome sequencing, plus portable monitors (such as Fitbit) to track in real time people's behavior and environment, mean that scientists already have the ability to collect the kinds of data they need to do the fundamental research behind precision weight loss.

Sidestepping controversy, its scientists quietly and reliably crank out reams of data on national concerns such as streamflow, earthquakes, and white - nose bat syndrome.

«With recent events, such as censorship of Internet traffic, suspicious «boomerang routing» where data leaves a region only to come back again, and monitoring of users» data, we became increasingly interested in this notion of empowering users to have more control over what happens with their data,» says project lead Dave Levin, an assistant research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

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.

«Scientists have developed indicators for biodiversity, such as land cover type, and modern ecological models that can digest satellite data and information on species occurrence are now offering near - real time monitoring of the land management impacts on biodiversity.

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.)

Planetary scientist Timothy Glotch of Stony Brook University in New York said the DLRE data also revealed concentrations of what he called highly silicic minerals, such as quartz and feldspar.

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.

MEGENA (for Multiscale Embedded Gene Co-expression Network Analysis) projects gene expression data onto a three dimensional sphere, allowing scientists to study hierarchical organization patterns in complex networks that are characteristic of diseases such as cancer, obesity, and Alzheimer's.

Some old - school planetary scientists still fear that someone will abuse «their» data, but the Mars rover missions have demonstrated that sharing raw images is a win - win situation, as those who work with such images are also the best PR people a mission can wish for.

Crowdsourcing climate bloggers have flagged phrases from the new e-mails that appear to show the scientists massaging data, such as this one:

Planetary scientist David Catling of the University of Washington in Seattle says that the Spirit data, in concert with other detections, such as that from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed in the Nili Fossae region of Mars, present a strong case for carbonates on Mars.

The main interface plots Kepler's data on a chart and asks the citizen scientist questions about what they see, such as patterns or dips in light.

... Research UK would take over administrative duties, such as tracking grant data, providing business support, and reporting to Parliament... [and] should be run by «a highly distinguished scientist, capable of delivering a managerially efficient organisation and of interacting effectively with Government.»

The scientists will continue to analyze the 2015 data in different ways to see how the effect depends on other variables, such as the momentum of the particles in various directions.

Seismic data may provide a way for scientists to quickly detect and characterize giant landslides that occur in remote regions, such as the one that hit northern Pakistan in January 2010, blocking a river and forming

In her analysis, the climate scientists made use of measured data compiled solely on land, such as rainfall, actual evaporation and potential evaporation.

«There is a $ 37 - billion - dollar - a-year industry for scientific research equipment that never saw individual users, like citizen scientists, as a market,» says Shannon Dosemagen, co-founder of DIY community Public Lab, which creates and sells tools, such as $ 10 mini-spectrometers, to collect and analyze data.

To support the VERIS observations, scientists will also turn to data sets gathered simultaneously by other solar observatories, such as the joint NASA - Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode and NASA's newly - launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, which observes the lower, cooler layers of the sun's atmosphere.

Others have used tide gauge data to measure GMSL acceleration, but scientists have struggled to pull out other important details from tide - gauge data, such as changes in the last couple of decades due to more active ice sheet melt.

For instance, says Korenberg, the data could help scientists to link genes that seem important in certain mental disorders, such as schizophrenia or autism, to specific brain - wiring abnormalities.

Many USC scientists use big data to find answers to intractable problems such as Alzheimer's disease and PTSD.