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Jake Porway who was a data scientist at the New York Times R&D labs has a great perspective on why multi-disciplinary teams are important to avoid bias and bring in different perspective in data analysis. He discusses a story where data gathered by Über in Oakland suggested that prostitution arrests increased in Oakland on Wednesdays but increased arrests necessarily didn't imply increased crime. He also outlines the data analysis done by Grameen Foundation where the analysis of Ugandan farm workers could result into the farmers being "good" or "bad" depending on which perspective you would consider. This story validates one more attribute of my point of view regarding data scientists - data scientists should be design thinkers . Working in a multi-disciplinary team to let people champion their perspective is one of the core tenants of design thinking. One of the viewpoints of Jake that I don't agree with: "Any data scientist worth their salary wil

Join us on Wed, Apr 17, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT to explore how to use cloud brokerage to move efficiently and securely to the cloud. More and more business and governmental agencies are migrating to the cloud but the reality is that move can often be slow, painful, and complicated.  Even expert system integrators are struggling to stay relevant and help their customers use cloud in a practical way. Challenges that siphon away time and money and introduce risk and governance issues include: - Designing and matching different applications to the best cloud offering - Learning to provision and integrate using phone book-sized cloud API guides - Developing new purchasing processes and verifying complex bills from multiple cloud providers - Combating cloud sprawl and Shadow IT - Not having real-time visibility, predictability, and governance of cloud cost, SLAs, and utilization Join our guests Forrester Research Principal Analyst Stefan Ried, Ph.D., and Gravitant custo

CHANTILLY, Va. , March 28, 2013 — NJVC ® will lead efforts to provide secure cloud brokerage services to the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium using its first-to-market Cloudcuity™ Management Portal during a series of 2013 geospatial community cloud demonstrations that will   be conducted on behalf of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). NJVC’s partners are The Aerospace Corporation , The Boeing Company and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) . Hosted through the secure Cloudcuity Management Portal, NCOIC members will have access to CloudScreen™, an automated set of evaluation tools that: Determines cloud infrastructure feasibility Estimates cloud infrastructure cost and benefits Conducts physical capacity for cloud   translations Matches application requirements to cloud provider capabilities based on features and functionality Compares provider costs and quality of service “NJVC is honored that NCOIC chose the Cloudcuity Management Portal as its brokerage

     A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr ( http://cloudcheckr.com/ ) sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud.  When AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of their customers’ usage. CloudCheckr compared the initial scans of 400 users against a list of 125+ best practice checks. The survey was limited to users with over 10 EC2 instances. In aggregate, the users represent a total of just over 16,000 EC2 instances.      They categorized survey results into 3 main categories: Cost, Availability, and Security; and that over 99% of their users were operating with at least one serious best practice exception. Their primary conclusion was that although cost often grabs the headlines, users suffer from a large number of availability and security issues.         When considering availability, there were numerous serious configuration issues