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Mastercard, Rockefeller Foundation Launch Online Data Platform For Non-Profits

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The site will be a dynamic platform for data science partnerships committed to improve the field’s social impact. The philanthropy organizations also revealed today a $10 million “impact challenge” to crowdsource data science initiatives and solutions for organizations in the non-profit, civic, and government space.

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TemperPack CEO On An eCommerce Shipping Future Free Of Styrofoam

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But he noted that when the company released ClimaCell in 2018, TemperPack expanded back to the life-sciences area, where the company had signed its original clients. ClimaCell reopened the life-sciences world to us because understandably, life-sciences companies need excellent thermal performance,” Powers said.

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Amazon’s New Arlington HQ Looks To Hire 400 This Year

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Today marks an important step in the process as we lease office space and begin hiring,” Amazon Vice President of Workforce Development Ardine Williams said in the post. “We We will welcome our new employees to our temporary office space on Crystal Drive in June while we work toward opening our first building this fall.”.

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Google Cloud Collabs On Enterprise Analytics With ThoughtSpot

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” Deepened integrations with the Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine will enable businesses’ data science teams to streamline operations, as well as open up sophisticated data science capabilities to business professionals even if they are not data scientists, the firms noted.

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Google Hires First Chief Health Officer

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DeSalvo will advise Google on doctors, nurses and providers through the firm’s cloud unit as well as the Verily life sciences arm, where she has served on its advisory board. In 2018, Google hired David Feinberg to lead the company’s expansion into the healthcare space.

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Foursquare And Factual Merge, Forming Location Powerhouse

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Last fall, as reported in this space, then Foursquare CEO wrote in an op-ed piece in The New York Times that it was time to regulate the location data space. We could all take a Hippocratic oath for data science (as in medicine: “First do no harm”), and hope that living by such an oath would curb abuses.

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Job Posting Suggests Amazon Will Put Advertising On Blockchain 

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There aren’t many more details about where Amazon would go with the technology, but it has been making forays into the space lately. Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in computer science and advertising, FinTech and blockchain experience. . In November, the company launched two blockchain-based initiatives. .