In the previous two posts, we covered two historical figures in data science: W.E.B Du Bois and Valerie Thomas . In this penultimate post, I want to cover seven inspiring Black data scientists and AI creators that you should follow on Twitter and whose work I highly encourage following. ...
With the increasing usage of monitoring of Earth resources due to climate change, data scientists today regularly use satellite imagery to answer questions about land use, atmospheric conditions, and ocean life among other things. One of the pioneers in this use of data was retired NASA...
Visualizing the Color Line: Du Bois and Data Storytelling in 1900 “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk February is Black History Month in the United States. Here at the IBM Data Science Community,...
Although Black History should be celebrated year-round, we do acknowledge that Black History Month is a great time to recognize outstanding accomplishments from our Black community. For the month of February, we will be featuring articles on our IBM Data Science in Practice Medium blog ...
Part 1: Create a simple data exploration dashboard As a data scientist, I’ve learned two things in the past few years. When it comes to making decisions about machine learning (ML) models, you need to gather the right evidence regarding your results, and communicate it to your project team...
We hope the new year finds you all well. Thanks to the over 400 people who participated in last month's Data Science Community Meetup: Language Models in Plain English with O'Reilly Technology Report authors and IBM Data Scientists, Austin Eovito and Marina Danilevsky. You can find the replay...
November was extremely busy for the Data Science Community, as we participated in IBM Community's annual user group event. Three years ago, the event was a one-day, multi-track event; last year we upped it to 2-days; and this year went all out with a five-day IBM Community Festival . Thank...
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Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash While many programs and bootcamps exist globally for data science and analytics, the primary language of all such curricula remains in English. Since only 8.2% of the world’s population speaks English fluently enough to undertake educational...
Part I of III by a uthors: Dr. Maeda Hanafi, Dr. Yannis Katsis, Dr. Yunyao Li, Dr. Bikalpa Neupane Do you remember the last time you’ve had to spend countless hours finding the exact information you need from hundreds and thousands of documents? A few examples of where this is a...