INDUSTRY BUZZ

Mar 14 2023

Progress for Gender Equality in the Tech Industry? The Percentage of Female Software Engineers in 2023

By Mark Gregory, Christopher Nelson, and Lauren Dixon

Gender diversity seems to have become more critical to tech companies with each passing year and according to AnitaB in their annual Top Companies for Women Technologists, women accounted for 27.6% of those working in tech in…

Feb 20 2023

HBR

What Young Professionals Need to Know About Generative AI

By Nahia Orduña Photo: Boris SV/Getty Images

New technology is now capable of communicating and making content in ways comparable to humans. It’s called generative artificial intelligence (AI), and you can use it to excel in the workforce...

Feb 12 2023

Architecture and Governance

Five Reasons Why In-Database Machine Learning Makes Sense

By Holt Hackney Photo: Paige Roberts

The adoption of machine learning based artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses is ramping up quickly. But building AI is not easy. Machine learning (ML) models have to be trained and when their accuracy drops, retrained on massive…

Feb 05 2023

TIME

The Creator of ChatGPT Thinks AI Should Be Regulated

By John Simons

Somehow, Mira Murati can forthrightly discuss the dangers of AI while making you feel like it’s all going to be OK. Murati is chief technology officer at OpenAI, leading the teams behind DALL-E, which uses…

Jan 25 2023

Science Direct

Gender and sex bias in COVID-19 epidemiological data through the lens of causality

By Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Rūta Binkytė and Others

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a large amount of experimental and observational studies reporting clear correlation between the risk of developing severe COVID-19 (or dying from it) and whether the individual is male or female.…

Nov 15 2022

Computer Weekly

Women more likely to leave tech jobs than men

By Clare McDonald, Business Editor

Women are more likely to leave their roles in the technology sector than men are, according to research by InnovateHer. The education platform, which for the past five years has been working towards getting more…

Oct 16 2022

LEAN IN

Women in the Workplace

Women in the Workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America.1 In 2015, LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company launched the study to give companies insights and tools to advance gender…

Sep 23 2022

Coursera

6 Popular Data Analytics Certifications: Your 2022 Guide

By Coursera

Data analytics is all about using data to make the right decisions. By collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data you can find the most strategic and optimal course of action to achieve a specific goal. As…

Feb 24 2022

BBC Ideas

Where did all the women in tech go?

By Marie Hicks

In the 1950s and 60s women used to dominate the UK's computing industry says historian of technology Marie Hicks. What happened...

Feb 11 2022

FICO Blog

Women in AI: Diversity Can Lead to Better Models

By Louise Lunn

The United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science today throws a spotlight on achieving full and equal access and participation for women and girls in science, citing the importance of this goal…

Feb 04 2022

NetApp

The importance of data in responsible and ethical AI

By Hoseb Dermanilian

As enterprises expand their artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, they must address important and sometimes difficult questions. Is AI being used responsibly? Can the results that it produces be explained? Because data underpins all AI processes,…

Oct 19 2021

TDS

Non-Coder to Data Scientist! 5 Inspiring Stories and Valuable Lessons

By Sharan Kumar Ravindran Photo: Carolyn Christine/Unsplash

Most of us look for inspiration. Inspiration helps a lot in breaking the self-imposed barriers. Inspiring stories not only help in improving self-confidence but is also a great source of motivation. It helps a lot…