Jeff Wilcox

Thomas Ricci - Home

I'm a college student and software engineer currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at WPI.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment | Research UC Berkeley

Launched in 2022, the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE) at Berkeley is a partnership between UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, with the financial support of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, working to take on these challenges.

Adam Whitcroft

Software designer from South Africa, living in Canada.

The Last Software Engineer

Kent C. Dodds is a web development educator working on Epic Product Engineer and he's the father of five kids in Utah.

Steve Simkins

DX Engineer | Defending the Open Web

The Local Relational Technologist

Who can we rely on for meaningful software in our communities?

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is one of the "Big Five" tech giants, well known for licensing...

Dale-Anthony Williams - Product Designer

UI/UX Designer with over ten years of experience specialising in interface design for mobile and web-based applications with a focus on simplicity & usability.

Ryan Stephen

Ryan Stephen is a product designer and prototyper with a background designing digital, spatial, and fluid interfaces. He is based in Seattle, WA and works at Microsoft.

Danny Smith

Remote work consultant and organizational health expert. Articles and insights on leadership, remote work, and business operations.

Matt Webb

I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and Wall Street “quant” were the hot occupations in business. Today data scientists are the hires firms are competing to make. As companies wrestle with unprecedented volumes and types of information, demand for these experts has raced well ahead of supply. Indeed, Greylock Partners, the VC firm that backed Facebook and LinkedIn, is so worried about the shortage of data scientists that it has a recruiting team dedicated to channeling them to the businesses in its portfolio. Data scientists are the key to realizing the opportunities presented by big data. They bring structure to it, find compelling patterns in it, and advise executives on the implications for products, processes, and decisions. They find the story buried in the data and communicate it. And they don’t just deliver reports: They get at the questions at the heart of problems and devise creative approaches to them. One data scientist who was studying a fraud problem, for example, realized it was analogous to a type of DNA sequencing problem. Bringing those disparate worlds together, he crafted a solution that dramatically reduced fraud losses. In this article, Harvard Business School’s Davenport and Greylock’s Patil take a deep dive on what organizations need to know about data scientists: where to look for them, how to attract and develop them, and how to spot a great one.

The Package King of Miami

Matthew Bergwall was a gifted coder who could have gotten a job at any tech company. He decided to go in another direction.