Data Science Articles

Stephen Gossett

Updated on July 08, 2021

‘Oscarmetrics’ author Ben Zauzmer has a solid record of predicting winners. How will his model account for, well, everything?

Brian Nordli

Updated on July 08, 2021

Technical talent is hard to find. So when scaling their team from five to 20, these data scientists decided to get creative.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on June 04, 2021

In praise of the (occasional) face plant.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on May 22, 2021

The census and COVID exposure trackers rely on deliberately noisy data as a privacy measure. Here’s how it works.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on May 17, 2021

Data science grads are more qualified than ever, but they still need good mentors to apply their skills in the real world.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on January 14, 2021

Need more data to train your model? Make some.

Tatum Hunter

Updated on October 06, 2020

Companies use stalling tactics to keep customers from getting their money back. Bots have nothing but time.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on September 02, 2020

A new toolkit offers advice on how to center racial equity throughout the lifecycle of administrative data.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on August 07, 2020

Visualizations can illuminate, but they can also be misleading.

Mike Thomas

Updated on June 01, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus spreads in the U.S. and around the world, sophisticated geographic information systems are being used to monitor its progress and provide real-time information to medical institutions and the public.