Washington (AP) — A prominent conservative group funneled valuable information about Republican voters between the Republican National Committee and state lawmakers, a move that violated its nonpartisan status and tax law, according to a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday with the Internal Revenue Service. The Center for Media and Democracy, a […]
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After cyberattack, stolen Chatham County data and sensitive documents posted online
This story originally was published in The Chatham News + Record. Sensitive data files stolen following Chatham County’s Oct. 28 governmental cyberattack have been posted online by a ransomware group, The Chatham News + Record has learned. The files include personnel records of some county employees, medical evaluations of children […]
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Here’s How Carro Uses Big Data And AI To Make 2020 A Fantastic Year
© Provided by Rojak Daily Here’s How Carro Uses Big Data And AI To Make 2020 A Fantastic Year By now, you might be familiar with MyTukar, the online platform that lets you sell your car at the best price possible using tech and big data. Their expansion in 2020 […]
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Is Big Data Biased? To Know, We Need to See the Recipe
Text size Vladimircaribb/Dreamstime Big data analytics is the secret sauce of the American polity and economy—widely utilized but poorly understood. Organizations use various types of big data analytics to make decisions, correlations, and predictions about their constituents or stakeholders. The market for data is big and growing rapidly; it’s estimated […]
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What Data Visualization Is and How to Get Started In This Field | Education
From COVID-19 data dashboards and election results to personal finance apps and social media analytics, visual representations of data are increasingly ubiquitous in day-to-day life and in business. If there are numbers involved, it’s often expected that those numbers will be visualized in a chart or a graph. (Getty Images) […]
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Learn Statistics to Unlock Data and Analytics Career Opportunities
Learning statistics is essential for pursuing a career in data science or analytics. Data scientists and analysts use statistics to uncover the meaning behind data. A spreadsheet with millions of customer characteristics is just a bunch of numbers and can be overwhelming – but when you translate the data into […]
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Services Australia has a lot of data and it’s trying to use it for the greater good
Image: Australian Labor Party Services Australia CEO Rebecca Skinner joined the agency in March, a week before the country started to feel the impacts of COVID-19. She said the pandemic fast-tracked the agency’s focus on “agility” but touted the use of “human-centred design” had helped it make quick change. “We’ve […]
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How have students fared in the coronavirus pandemic? New data sheds some light.
When the coronavirus pandemic disrupted school for millions of students last spring, studies projected alarming rates of learning loss as schools shifted to remote instruction, particularly for vulnerable students. Complicating matters is that this shift poses challenges in accurately assessing student progress and participation. But as more data emerges, one […]
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What CIOs Can Learn From the Race to Understand Covid-19 Data
Chief information officers can learn many lessons from the coronavirus pandemic when it comes to managing data, according to DJ Patil, a former U.S. chief data scientist, including the need to prepare for constant change and broadening who counts as data stakeholders. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network […]
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Animal Crossing’s Least Popular Villager, According To Data
Animal Crossing’s least popular villager is so far behind that catching up seems unlikely, but some New Horizons villagers just don’t make fans cheer. Building the most beautiful island paradise is only half the battle for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The stunning scenery and fabulous decorations aren’t much use if there […]
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8 best VPN services that protect your data and devices
We’ve explained why you should use one and what it actually does (iStock) What is a VPN service? A VPN (virtual private network) is a useful online tool. At its simplest, it’s a series of computers networked together across the internet. It creates a virtual tunnel between your computer and […]
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The NHTSA’s autonomous vehicle test tracker won’t be useful until more brands submit better data
Back in June, the National Highways and Transport Safety Authority (NHTSA) in the US announced that it would be launching a new online tool which lets anyone log-on and get information about autonomous vehicle tests. AV TEST launched earlier this week, and well, it’s interesting to browse for a few […]
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California inks deal for new system after COVID data backlog
LOS ANGELES (AP) — About a month after California disclosed its COVID-19 tracking system had produced inaccurate case numbers, state officials awarded a $15 million contract Tuesday to a software company to design a successor capable of collecting greater amounts of more detailed data on the spread of the virus. […]
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4 Semiconductor Stocks to Snap Up on Data Center Strength
Coronavirus crisis-induced work-and-learn-from-home necessity led growth in demand for cloud services has compelled data center operators to bolster their cloud-storage capacities. This has bolstered chip demand from data center operators. In fact, semiconductor companies, including Intel INTC, Advanced Micro Devices AMD, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited TSM, delivered blockbuster […]