When data scientist Joanne Lin was looking for patterns in adoption data from the Austin Animal Center, a surprising result jumped out: cats with names are much more likely to find a home than those without names. In fact, having a name turns out to be one of the most important determinants of whether a cat is adopted, […]
Headquartered in Midtown Atlanta, a few blocks from one of the top engineering programs in the country at Georgia Tech, sits an arm of a company whose history spans the same 132 years as the University (both were founded in 1885) — Honeywell’s Home and Building Technologies headquarters and Software Center. The Software Center has been repeatedly described […]
Sean Gordon, CEO of Intelliverse, is a twenty-year Georgia resident whose passion is ensuring that his customers and employees win every day. He is now with Intelliverse, the “thirty-year start-up.” A few facts about this industry veteran: In his time at Intelliverse, he has expanded the company’s portfolio of services by launching IntelliConnection, a lead generation and appointment […]
You’re invited to participate in the Big Data Week Hackathon: The Connected Society. May 9th-10th. Day 1, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM at Hypepotamus (Ideate and Mingle) – We’re looking for a group of developers, designers and marketing talent to compete on a global stage in the 2nd annual Big Data Week hackathon. The first […]
International Big Data Week is a week long series of independently hosted events organized as a platform to educate, inform and inspire a global community of data scientists, business executives, technologists, data visualizers and data businesses spanning major commercial, financial, social and technological sectors. The festival, taking place across the world on May 5-11, 2014, connects […]