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Sundar: In my experience, being an architect in the past and managing and providing consulting for a lot of my customers, data governance is being looked at primarily to serve the regulatory requirements in the past. So, it used to be a standalone process level, but for any effective data governance there, it should be a holistic process. It should be done right from the source of the data all the way to the consumption of feedback. That is one of the key best practices that we recommend to all of our customers. Also,…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Indiana high school students with disabilities who spent 80% of their educational time in general education classrooms scored higher on state reading and math assessments and were better prepared for post-secondary education and employment opportunities than their peers in less inclusive settings, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the 1990s, changes in violent crime rates, social and political unrest directed at law enforcement, and technological innovations set the stage for major changes in administering criminal justice. Several innovative approaches to policing were tested, seeking to take tougher, smarter, more focused approaches to gun violence, gang crime, open air drug markets, and the recidivism of chronic…

Focusing on Framing, Timing, and TargetsPhoto by Alvaro Reyes on UnsplashIn order to build successful machine learning solutions, there are certain fundamental ideas that everyone involved needs to understand. In this blog post, we look at three key early stages of the design process that managers can focus on to ensure that the project is headed toward a successful outcome.This post presumes the reader already understands distinctions in machine learning such as supervised and unsupervised models, training and testing…

Using Visualizations and Tree-Base Models to Analyze and Predict OutcomesImage by Pixabay on PexelsMany of the causes of healthcare worker attrition are related to the stressful nature of the healthcare work industry. Many employees work long hours and often experience high burnout. Employee attrition in healthcare is an issue because it exacerbates the issue of the limited supply of workers in the space. Since the healthcare space is significantly understaffed and many healthcare employees are overworked, the quality of…

(A) Map of the SGR (yellow boundary) and surroundings. Background image is true-color satellite imagery from 10 and 28 January 2021. Dark rectangular areas within the SGR are recently burned sugarcane fields. (B) Locations of sugarcane fires and major cities (yellow circles, labeled with names) in peninsular Florida. The SGR is shown in black and colors show population density by ZIP code. Also shown are the U.S. EPA monitoring sites used in analysis…

About four years ago — a year before the pandemic hit the U.S. — the school system moved its entire on-premises enterprise resource planning application, PeopleSoft, into Amazon Web Services.Wolff said it was a lightbulb moment. "This is really where the cloud creates huge benefits for us," Wolff told ZDNet. "Not only is it scalable and flexible, but we have a much better security wrapper around it. We have much better insights into the processes that are happening on that massive infrastructure."Going forward,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Social scientists have urged policy-makers and governments to rethink how income inequality is measured. In a new study published in Nature Human…

Researchers have found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or death due to COVID-19 by over 40 percent; and over 50 percent if prescribed early in onset of symptoms.Trial compared the effect of ivermectin, fluvoxamine, and metformin in randomized double-blinded placebo- controlled trial.Scientists have found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The role of the Interview Manager is critical to the success of high-stake crime investigations but research shows that there is little understanding of the role both outside and even inside U.K. police forces. …