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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

CIO Business Intelligence

Because of this, according to a report from Russel Reynolds Associates and Valence , 47% of Black technology professionals “strongly agree” that they must switch between companies more regularly for career growth, whereas only 28% of non-Black respondents said the same. years on average.

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Big Data Analytics in eLearning: Aspects Everyone Should Know

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With technological advancement, data revolutionizes many business processes. In 2017, 77% of U.S. Statistics show that Edutech will have an average compound growth rate of 16.5% Teachers can now see real-time statistics about individual courses on their eLearning platforms. between 2022 and 2030. Conclusion.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

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After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. Similarly, in 2018 the volume of breaches dropped to 1.257 billion (from 1.632 billion in 2017), but the records exposed dramatically increased to 471.23 million in 2017).

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Gender Inequality Persists in Data Science and AI

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US Labor Force Statistics for Selected Occupations. Look at diversity numbers for some tech giants, and you will see that women make up a small part of the technology industry. In a prior study , I found that men and women possessed comparable proficiency in subject matter expertise, technology and programming and math/statistics.

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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

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With the technology available today, there’s even more data to draw from. Statistics show that married people have fewer car accidents than singletons. Insurance companies have access to crime statistics and can track the number of car theft and break-ins per neighborhood. Marital status.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. “I had seen others leave to learn software engineering and not come back, which is why we advocated for this program.”.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Search engines, machine translation services, and voice assistants are all powered by the technology. Apply the technology to voice and the pool gets even larger. While the term originally referred to a system’s ability to read, it’s since become a colloquialism for all computational linguistics. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0