GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

OneBusAway Image) OneBusAway , the beloved app that delivers real-time information to public transportation riders, needs help to keep the bus and train data moving on time. The open-source code project has grown far beyond the Seattle region and is used by transit agencies in New York City, Washington, D.C.,

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. 2014 Data Impact Awards. That’s precisely what the annual Data Impact Awards, presented by Cloudera, are for.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions. 2014 Data Impact Awards. That’s precisely what the annual Data Impact Awards, presented by Cloudera, are for. Nominations are open through September 12, 2014.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck , a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. Among them: Data visualization company Tableau Software (the 2012 winner), acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. ’s independent authority for data privacy and protection. Milton Lang. Washington STEM Photo). James Philips. and Insent last year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models. CIOs want to take advantage of this but on their terms—and their own data. In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

But this weekend, the nonprofit institute — and its hometown — are taking a little time to celebrate. All this week, the Allen Institute has been highlighting Open Science Week , which touches upon one of the core values that Allen had in mind when he launched the institute with a $100 million donation on Sept. ”

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. They could unplug the data centers. They could whistleblow.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. They could unplug the data centers. They could whistleblow.

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Vox

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Data privacy laws are still a work in progress, but one major improvement is coming: Global Privacy Control, which — assuming everything works out — will let you automatically opt out of having your data sold or shared at every website you visit. For now, it doesn’t do much, but it is available if you want to add it to your browser.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. This latter point has led many coders to complain that OpenAI is profiting unfairly from their work.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2023

On Thursday, the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine and the nonprofit Washington Lawyers for the Arts co-hosted a panel discussion titled “Artificial Intelligence: The New Muse? Or, use a secure platform where it makes data scraping much more difficult.” AI’s Evolving Legal, Regulatory & Ethical Landscape.”

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2021

An analysis from CNN of 14 states’ vaccination data found that white people are being vaccinated at higher rates than Black and Latino people, despite having comparatively lower hospitalization and death rates. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. They’re going out.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Incoming Fred Hutch chief data officer Jeffrey Leek. Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has recruited a new vice president and chief data officer: biostatistician and data science educator Jeffrey Leek. Jeffrey Leek: I am excited about the chance of building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale.

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Still, Mutale Nkonde, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford who leads the nonprofit AI for the People, told the AP that “the symbolic nature of this is important.”. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

RELATED: Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son. LS: That led Ramesh to employ a very techie idea: open-source engineering. Biotech is not producing a lot because academia is not producing a lot of preclinical data.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Its software development kit makes it possible to write add-on modules that integrate with open-source, third-party and legacy systems. .” A key component of AppDeployer empowers developers with point-and-click tools to rapidly prototype and deploy applications without programming.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Life scientists have a data problem: information is fragmented, siloed and incomplete. But in the life sciences, “the standardization of the data is very challenging,” said panelist Maddison Masaeli , CEO of Deepcell, a startup that visually analyzes and categorizes single cells. Not all life sciences data are messy. IPD Image).

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2023

Earlier this month Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released an open multimodal augmentation of the popular text-only corpus, c4. This new data set, which AI2’s researchers dubbed Multimodal C4, or mmc4 , is a publicly available model that interleaves text and images in a billion-scale data set.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking all those contracts “is an entire project that, in a just world, a team of people would be summarizing in real time,” says Jack Poulson, founder of the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry. We fought networked wars for some time, but always in the narrowband sense,” he told me.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Because of increasing volumes of data on the internet, the average cost of training the kinds of machine learning models that generative AI runs on could grow as large as $500 million to train a single model by 2030, according to a recent report by advanced AI research group EpochAI.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. There are also concerns of bias due to a lack of diversity in the material and data that generative AI is trained on, or the people who are overseeing that training. Design platform Canva has one , too.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

Those included that users be kept anonymous; no location data be used; data stay on users’ devices rather than go to a centralized database maintained by a government authority; the system be opt-in only; and that the tool ends when the pandemic threat is over. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

The mobile data and analytics provider said demand for privacy-focused messaging apps has grown in the last few years, as internet privacy becomes a more mainstream issue and as people spend more time — 67 percent more time on average in the first half of 2020 — in messaging apps than on social media apps.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees. who may focus on pandemic case data , the virus’s impact on specific locations , or the industries affected. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. It has included shelter, aging, international development, families, work, health, and personal data. Twitter: @hauspa. Cornelia Daheim. Location: Cologne, Germany.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. Some are worried that working with an app means their health data will be compromised. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. A screenshot of Carbon Health’s vaccine app notes two doses.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Early data shows that social media companies’ recent moves to boot President Trump, some of his allies, and tens of thousands of QAnon-affiliated accounts off their platforms have contributed to a massive decline in misinformation. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The center would allow visitors to learn about the company’s data storage and content moderation practices, and even to inspect the algorithms that power its core recommendation engine. “We We also got an overview of the app’s community guidelines, its approach to child safety, and how it keeps data secure. You can’t prove a negative.

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