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What is Data Mining? And, is it Dangerous?
What is data mining and should it be a cause for concern among consumers? Here is what you should know about data mining and whether or not it could pose a significant threat to privacy and keeping personal information secure. What is Data Mining? Data mining is a process of data analysis that combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistics. Data scientists use this process to analyze significant amounts of [...]
What is DevOps Culture and What Companies Have Taken the Risk?
Most informational technology (IT) companies have started to use DevOps principles. This new field has become one of the most profitable and personally satisfying areas within IT. Using DevOps can help evolve and improve products faster than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. Many organizations are switching over to these new processing principles, but what exactly does that mean? What is DevOps Culture? DevOps is a combination [...]
How Technology Impacts the Clean Energy Industry and Environment
This has drastically impacted our living environment, leading to shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels, and more frequent high-temperature extreme events. If we continue to ignore these signs, these conditions will only worsen. According to the World Wilde Life Fund by 2050, rising sea levels could affect 1 billion people, the Arctic sea could be ice-free, and extreme heatwaves could occur every 5 years. The only way to combat climate [...]
Advantages of Getting IT Certification Training Through a College vs. Bootcamp
Employers are currently hiring for a wide variety of IT skills. Both accredited institutions and bootcamps equip learners with such hard skills. Your choice, college vs. bootcamp entirely depends on your schedule, interest, finances, and career goals. The following article lists some advantages of receiving IT certificate training through a college vs. bootcamp. Advantages of Tech Training from a College vs. Bootcamp Curriculum The curriculum at bootcamps is typically designed [...]
Jody Miller-Smith’s Column Featured in EdTech Digest
Jody Miller-Smith is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Woz U. She is a leader who has devoted her career to delivering solutions at the intersection of technology, marketing, and education. She believes that now is the time to attract more women into these fields. Jody Miller-Smith's Background Jody Miller-Smith grew up in rural Montana, where technology was scarce. With such a background, she could not have predicted a [...]
3 Ways We Can Use Big Data and AI for Public Good
At a Fireside Chat hosted by WOZ U and ENTITY Academy, Dr. Richard Matthew spoke to aspiring data scientists and machine learning engineers about this very topic. Richard Matthew is a man of many titles. He is a Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, and Director of the Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation at the University of California Irvine. He is also [...]