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Feed: Radar. Author: David G. Robinson. Algorithms tell stories about who people are. The first story an algorithm told about me was that my life was in danger. It was 7:53 pm on a clear Monday evening in September of 1981, at the Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington DC. I was exactly one minute old. The medical team scored me—as it does for nearly all of the 98% of American newborns who arrive in hospitals—using a ten-point scale known as the Apgar, a simple algorithm based on direct observations of newborn health. (You get two points for waving your ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Roger Magoulas and Steve Swoyer. To continue learning and to get ahead with your career, check out O’Reilly Learning with a free trial.  Live online training, videos, books, certification prep, and more, from O’Reilly and our partner publishers. We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. So we constructed a survey and ran it earlier this year: from January 9th through January 31st, 2020. All told, we received 1,283 responses. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. A lot happened between January and the first ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Andrew Burt and Patrick Hall. These are unprecedented times, at least by information age standards. Much of the U.S. economy has ground to a halt, and social norms about our data and our privacy have been thrown out the window throughout much of the world. Moreover, things seem likely to keep changing until a vaccine or effective treatment for COVID-19 becomes available. All this change could wreak havoc on artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Garbage in, garbage out still holds in 2020. The most common types of AI systems are still only as good as their training data ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Justin Norman, Peter Skomoroch and Mike Loukides. In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI, we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager.  This role includes everything a traditional PM does, but also requires an operational understanding of machine learning software development, along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. In this article, we shift our focus to the AI Product Manager’s skill set, as it is applied to day to day work in the design, development, and maintenance of AI products. To understand the skills that product ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Mike Loukides. You probably interact with fifty to a hundred machine learning products every day, from your social media feeds and YouTube recommendations to your email spam filter and the updates that the New York Times, CNN, or Fox News decide to push, not to mention the hidden models that place ads on the websites you visit, and that redesign your ‘experience’ on the fly. Not all models are created equal, however: they operate on different principles, and impact us as individuals and communities in different ways. They differ fundamentally from each other along ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Each month, Mike Loukides creates a list of things he finds interesting or important in the technology world. Some items are personal observations or summaries of interesting conversations. Most items on the list have links to media sources—some original sources, some from other reporting, whichever is more informative. After last month’s “all coronavirus, all the time” report, I was concerned that this month would be more of the same.  And there is, indeed, a lot of coronavirus. But there are many other trends and interesting items to look at–possibly a sign that people are working ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Helping government through this crisis. We’re offering free access to O’Reilly online learning to any individual who works for a US government agency to get the learning you need as your agency responds to unprecedented demand. We’ve all seen that the world (well, governments, specifically state governments, to say nothing of the banks) is screaming for COBOL programmers—a cry that goes up roughly every five years. We somehow muddle through the crisis at hand, then people forget that it was ever a problem. It’s time we asked what the crisis really is, and why it keeps ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Level up with Tableau to build eye-catching, easy-to-interpret data visualizations. In this follow-up guide to Practical Tableau, author Ryan Sleeper takes you through a collection of unique tips and tutorials for using this popular software. Beginning to advanced Tableau users will learn how to go beyond Show Me to make better charts and learn dozens of tricks to improve both the author and user experience. Featuring many approaches he developed himself, Ryan shows you how to create charts that empower Tableau users to explore, understand, and derive value from their ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Daniel Wu and Mike Loukides. Three months ago, Apple released a new credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs that aimed to disrupt the highly regulated world of consumer finance. However, a well-known software developer tweeted that he was given 20x the credit line offered to his wife, despite the fact that they have been filing joint tax returns and live in a community property state. The story went viral on Twitter, and led to an official government investigation for bias. Even if Apple—the privacy leader—did not discriminate on gender, it experienced one of its worst product ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. When you have questions about C# 8.0 or .NET Core, this best-selling guide has the answers you need. C# is a language of unusual flexibility and breadth, but with its continual growth there’s so much more to learn. In the tradition of the O’Reilly Nutshell guides, this thoroughly updated edition is simply the best one-volume reference to the C# language available today. Organized around concepts and use cases, C# 8.0 in a Nutshell provides intermediate and advanced programmers with a concise map of C# and .NET knowledge that also plumbs ... Read More