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Children exposed to school shootings

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To do that, reporters attempted to identify every act of gunfire at a primary or secondary school during school hours since the Columbine High massacre on April 20, 1999.

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Bill Gates: AI will be ‘as good a tutor as any human,’ but payoffs in education will take time

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However, he also cautioned education technology investors to be pragmatic, saying they should think of the field like the internet of 1999-2001, with far more financial failures than successes, at least in the short run. Technology will ultimately fill that gap, he said.

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Sydney and the Bard

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What didn’t receive as much news coverage (though in the last few days, it’s been well discussed online) are the many mistakes that Microsoft’s new search engine, Sydney, made. The fact that we know its name is Sydney is one of those mistakes, since it’s never supposed to reveal its name. (Ben

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What is a Data Visualization Grammar?

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Today’s idea of a visualization grammar is largely based on Leland Wilkinson’s 1999 book, The Grammar of Graphics. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here and receive the latest news every Thursday. It does make it harder to try out different visualization ideas in D3, however, as you would while exploring or analyzing data.

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Predicting Football Touchdowns with Machine Learning

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I found play-by-play csv files from as far back as 1999 in this GitHub repository (including key player’s names, yards gained, passes completed, etc.). What if we could analyze the factors that lead to touchdowns and predict which quarterbacks will do best in upcoming seasons? Photo by Keith Johnston on Unsplash Data.

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How Alation Helps Students Prepare for a Career in Data

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Enterprise Software Supports Applied Learning Professor McMahon has been a faculty member in the School of Information Technology (SoIT) at the University of Cincinnati (UC) since 1999. He created the SoIT’s Data Technologies track, which consists of six courses, and designed, developed, and taught four of them.

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Drowning in Data? A Data Lake May Be Your Lifesaver

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The technology that became HPCC Systems began its existence in 1999 at a company called Seisint. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here and receive the latest news every Thursday. They were interested in creating a data platform capable of managing a sizable number of datasets. Interested in attending an ODSC event?