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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected. It was just talking about how computers work and the theory of code and the theory of statistical analysis and how best to write your code,” says Wilson.

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Diversity for Businesses: What happens if Diversity is at odds with the organization?

Jen Stirrup

I am mentoring and leading them, while delivering the project, setting a vision, generating and implementing data strategies, and slowly helping to mould the culture to be more data-driven as well as insight-driven. Equal Pay Portal ( 2017) United Kingdom data on the gender pay gap. . Franklin, J. Sosenko, F.,

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optimally. But looking through the blogosphere, some go further and posit that “platformization” of forecasting and “forecasting as a service” can turn anyone into a data scientist at the push of a button.