Sentences with phrase «with academic data»

They include three ACT diagnostics each year so students can see their progress on college readiness standards, regular progress reports with academic data on class performance metrics, discipline data, reading growth data, and many others.

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Many of the data scientists employed today have jumped ship from the academic world; they're among the relative few who know what to do with the massive, unstructured sets of data the world is now awash in.

In 2013, a third - party app developer named Aleksandr Kogan had access to 50 million Facebook users» data for academic research, and without permission, he distributed it to a consulting firm with ties to the Trump Administration, Cambridge Analytica.

The company provides outside academics with access to its tools and data points, which have been incorporated into independent peer - reviewed studies.

Many institutions still lack the technological infrastructure needed to harness their own researchers» mammoth data sets, let alone those at other academic centers; fixing that alone could present medical science with one of the greatest research opportunities in decades.

Schroepfer also confirmed this agreement was signed with Kogan in June 2016, and said the «core commitments» were to confirm the deletion of data from himself and three others Kogan had passed it to: Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix; Wylie, for a company he had set up after leaving Cambridge Analytica; and Dr Michael Inzlicht from the Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience (Kogan mentioned to the committee earlier this week he had also passed some of the Facebook data to a fellow academic in Canada).

Facebook has said the data was initially collected by a professor for academic purposes in line with its rules.

Twitter said it sold data to the Cambridge University academic who had separately shared user data he gleaned from Facebook with third parties including Cambridge Analytica.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

It may be unfair to single him out, but I have become familiar with his work mainly because several of my investment and academic friends in Australia seem to delight in sending me his articles and making witty comments about how economists can take data that confounds their forecasts and use it to confirm their analysis.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

The thesis is that autonomous vehicles will get nowhere fast if the developers and academics researching them can't freely share their data and ideas with one another.

In addition to government and academic sector coordination efforts, the Shanghai Data Exchange has also partnered with Alibaba, Huawei, and Deloitte to increase analytics, data - enrichment, and consumer insights as use caData Exchange has also partnered with Alibaba, Huawei, and Deloitte to increase analytics, data - enrichment, and consumer insights as use cadata - enrichment, and consumer insights as use cases.

The Shanghai Data Exchange, in coordination with various enterprise and academic entities, formed to create China's first national engineering laboratory for big - data distribution and exchange technologData Exchange, in coordination with various enterprise and academic entities, formed to create China's first national engineering laboratory for big - data distribution and exchange technologdata distribution and exchange technologies.

His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly has been widely cited by academics, policymakers and journalists, while its massive data set has been extensively used by researchers worldwide.

Many academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the data they seek unless the research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest for them.

But Kogan's academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use data for commercial and political ends.

In that case, the 270,000 people who downloaded an app authorized an academic working with Cambridge Analytica to collect their data.

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

«Facebook's defense that Cambridge Analytica harvesting of FB user data from millions is not technically a «breach» is a more profound & damning statement of what's wrong with Facebook's business model than a «breach,»» said University of North Carolina academic Zeynep Tufekci, who is influential on social media topics, on Twitter.

This joint project will allow the Plato Partnership and Imperial to work together to share their knowledge and data with top - quality academics conducting independent research on market structure and technology issues.

Others are astringently academic analyses of survey research data accumulated by the National Opinion Research Center, with which he has been connected for decades.

The reasons for the association of Bible literacy with higher academic outcomes are many, but the data remind us that America's schools can not claim that their graduates are well educated unless they have knowledge of the Bible.

Midwives, mothers, and others interested in conducting research with MANA Stats data but who do not have academic affiliations and thus no access to IRB or ethics boards are invited to access the dataset through the DOR's ConnectMe program.

Then it goes on to explain how research projects need IRB approval, so that's why they set up their program that connects «[m] idwives, mothers, and others interested in conducting research with MANA Stats data but who do not have academic affiliations» with a mentor who has IRB approval.

EFA has been also been working with provider associations during the 2014 to 2015 academic year on improving the quality of data received at R04 and R06.

Facebook has said the data was initially collected by a professor for academic purposes in line with its rules.

The academic integrity of the Empire Center is second to none and the rigid honesty they exhibit in dealing with data is something that I will carry with me for the rest of my working career.»

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people without their consent through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life that was created by an academic for Global Science Research.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

But Kogan's academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use data for commercial and political ends.

At the time, the company had access to Facebook data that had been obtained by a researcher for academic purposes and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook executives said last week.

We have spent the last two years collecting a huge range of data on UK democracy from a variety of sources, including the Electoral Commission, the Office for National Statistics, the House of Commons Library, the Greater London Authority, Electoral Office of Northern Ireland, Scottish Government, along with the work of other academics.

The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller: a Bond villain - style CEO, a reclusive billionaire, a naïve and conflicted whistle - blower, a hipster data scientist turned politico, an academic with seemingly questionable ethics, and of course a triumphant president and his influential family.

Academics at Essex University have analysed the 2010 general election results together with survey data on voters» second and third preferences, and estimated that the Lib Dems would have gained an extra 32 seats under AV.

While it has worked with relevant academics and key partners like the Community Security Trust (long responsible for recording anti-Semitic attacks in Britain), the short life - cycle of Tell MAMA to - date plus the nature of self - reporting data of this kind poses genuine limitations in data collection.

Facebook says the data was initially collected by a professor for academic purposes in line with its rules.

Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic working with Cambridge Analytica, allegedly violated Facebook's terms of use by saying the data would be used for academic purposes, not political purposes.

From this base, visit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology campus to meet with local researchers and academics to learn about coral restoration, trap insects and input data into a research project and visit the «sustainable homes» development project — a blueprint for sustainable living.

Brown had already collaborated with some of the nation's major hospital designers, like ZGF Portland, so he could make sure that new data and ideas would not languish in unread academic papers.

If the prevention trials fail, it will be up to academics to persuade companies back to the table with solid preclinical and early clinical data, says Mucke.

The # 1.3 m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - funded project will see academics working with newly - developed dynamic visual sensors, which drastically reduce computing power and data storage requirements by only updating the parts of an image where movement occurs.

With the announcement of its new Data Grants program, Twitter is inviting academic researchers to propose experiments that take advantage of the full «firehose» of its 500 million daily tweets.

Led by Dr Steven Marwaha, a clinical academic Psychiatrist, the research analysed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and found that teenage cannabis use at least 2 - 3 times weekly is directly associated with suffering from symptoms of hypomania in later years.

Iran, with its large academic community, seemed likely to top the list, an impression borne out by new analyses of publications and mobility data from Elsevier's SciVal and Scopus databases (below) and Science's own analysis of data from ORCID, a nonprofit with rich data about scientists» professional affiliations (below).

With some help from undergrad students, the team combed through hundreds of discredited academic journal websites to gather basic data.

Much of the data in the study has come out previously, some in earlier papers about the parents of the virus that «reassorted» to make this new H1N1, some in the flood of genetic sequences put into public databases, and some in press interviews with public health agencies and academic investigators.

Analyzing data from academic hospitals across the country, provided by the University HealthSystem Consortium, the researchers identified 56,997 patients with severe sepsis who were admitted to 124 academic hospitals in 2011.

It will provide researchers with a level of detail not typically found in academic research papers, including 3D models, bills of materials, raw experimental data, multimedia step - by - step tutorials, and case studies of various soft robot designs.

With the exception of Finland, statistical data on liberal adult education is poorly available and the activities often lack a clear organisation, making the role of liberal adult education in educational policy and academic research less prominent than that of vocational non-formal education.