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Driving big data into action with real-time platform
From autonomous aquatic robots to drones identifying terrorist threats in real time, data collection is at the core of businesses today. For one robotics company, this realization of data’s power over the gadget itself was an industry game changer. “… What they did, they were selling the [aquatic] robots, and what they realized over time is that ...
Passion for storytelling drives SAP executive to data sciences
Data science is all about storytelling, and the narrative for Mala Anand is one driven by passion. One of a handful of female executives at software solutions provider SAP SE, Anand has written her own story of success and offers three key steps for other women seeking leadership positions in enterprise technology: “I think, number ...
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The two ‘superpowers’ of data visualization
At a French engineering school, Nathalie Henry Riche (pictured) was one of only three women in her graduating class of 300. As a researcher at Microsoft since 2009, Henry Riche believes thought diversity — a variety of cultures, genders, age ranges and backgrounds — are more of a focus to her than just being a minority woman in her field. “Part of the ...
Walmart presses to hire more women in data sciences
The largest supermarket and private employer in the U.S., Wal-mart Stores Inc. has set its footprint this year at the Global Women in Data Science Conference with a mission: Hire more women. The former lead to data science at Walmart, Esteban Arcaute, was looking into how to expand the leverage of data and to recruit more ...
Q&A: Golden State Warriors takes on diversity in the board room
From the locker room to board meetings, the Golden State Warriors basketball team operates with a competitive edge that helps drive the organization’s forward-thinking mission, including being a more inclusive workforce. One example of the 2017 National Basketball Association champs’ mission to embrace diversity included teaming up with consulting company Accenture to tackle change management practices in the executive boardroom. ...
Filling the STEM gap with women, seeking balance for their time
Although women are climbing up some parts of the STEM ladder, they often reach an impasse near the top of their career tracks due to the lack of female role models, according to Daniela Witten (pictured), associate professor of statistics and biostatistics at the University of Washington. She’s hoping that will change as more women share ...
Empowering women in tech to break out of their comfort zones
Jennifer Prendki found her voice. Self-described as soft-spoken, the current chief data scientist at Atlassian Pty Ltd faces the challenges of going against the flow of established processes and speaking up in male-dominated meetings. “It’s typical for people, like a head of data science, female data scientists, to be in a situation where they are perceived as being ...
Redefining women of all ages through data science
The first black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in computer science at MIT in 2001, Latanya Sweeney’s journey was riddled with hurdles. Despite her hard work, Sweeney felt discouraged at the time with the pressures of impressing her professors. With the help of mentors and armed with a doctorate degree, Sweeney is now in a position to redefine what ...
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Where are women in the cryptocurrency industry?
As women are climbing the corporate ladder in the technology industry, working in the cryptocurrency market could actually be a missed opportunity. But the story is different for Margaux Avedisian (pictured), executive vice president at Transform Group LLC and partner and co-founder at CooLPool Fund, as she was among the first female bitcoin leaders to ...
More assets back cryptocurrency as startup lends cash for bitcoin
The pain points of a bitcoin user seeking a loan: walk into a bank, present personal financial statements, and face a head-scratching banker uncertain of the cryptocurrency’s asset status. This is according to Shawn Owen (pictured), chief executive officer of Salt Lending Holdings Inc. “In fact, the technology makes a perfect form of collateral. We have all this ability ...