Sit in any Silicon Valley coffee shop for a while and no doubt you'll overhear someone talking about data analytics. What is it and who's crunching those numbers? It's the job of a data scientist to ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. With five years of experience as a writer ...

When you hear the phrase “data science,” you might envision caffeine-stoked coding wizards building the next Instagram or ground-breaking AI app. In reality, an ever-increasing number of employers are ...

Missing a government job can feel like a major setback for many people, but it can also be the start of a new journey. One of the most promising alternatives today is a career in data science.

Officials at the Office of Personnel Management last week announced a new initiative to improve data management and implement evidence-based policy making across the federal government: establishing a ...

“Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” So proclaimed the Harvard Business Review in 2012. Six years later and the job of a data scientist has only grown sexier. More employers than ...

Data science involves using scientific methods, algorithms, and systems to extract insights from structured and unstructured data. As a discipline, data science synthesizes mathematics, statistics, ...