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LinkedIn Unveils Open-Source Toolkit for Detecting AI Bias

As AI becomes increasingly integrated in our day-to-day lives, the implications of bias in AI grow more and more worrisome. Training data that appears impartial is often influenced by historical and socioeconomic factors Read more…

Navigating the AI and Analytics Job Market During COVID-19

The market for AI and analytics jobs has not been spared from the wrath of COVID-19, which has directly led to the loss of more than 30 million American jobs over the past four months. It may not appear to be an ideal ti Read more…

LinkedIn Open Sources Kube2Hadoop

Hadoop and Kubernetes have fundamentally different ways of authenticating users, exposing a security gap for organizations that want to access HDFS data from Kubernetes-based applications. Thanks to the new Kube2Hadoop t Read more…

Weighing the Impact of a Facial Recognition Ban

Should facial recognition technology be banned? That question is getting renewed interest in the wake of revelations about Clearview AI’s use and potential abuse of the technology. But the debate over banning facial re Read more…

When Not to Use a Database, As Told by Jun Rao

Databases are powerful abstractions that allow people and programs to manipulate large amounts of data in a predictable, repeatable way. There's a good reason why SQL is so important to modern data processing. But in som Read more…

LinkedIn Data Helps to Create the First-Ever Global Map of Labor Flow

LinkedIn and Indiana University have published what they are calling “the first ever map of global labor flow.” The research – which was published in August’s issue of Nature Communications – used a massive amo Read more…

LinkedIn Unleashes ‘Nearline’ Data Streaming

LinkedIn is releasing its Brooklin data ingestion service to the open source community. Brooklin has been running in production on the social media platform since 2016. The stateless and distributed service is used pr Read more…

What’s Behind Lyft’s Choices in Big Data Tech

Lyft was a late entrant to the ride-sharing business model, at least compared to its competitor Uber, which pioneered the concept and remains the largest provider. That delay in starting out actually gave Lyft a bit of a Read more…

Three Ways to Close Your Company’s Data Science Skills Gap Now

It should come as no surprise that demand for folks with data science expertise exceeds supply. In fact, according to some McKinsey, there are only half as many qualified data scientists as needed. The good news is the m Read more…

Presto Backers Bolster Its Open Source Origins

A new industry group will promote Presto, the popular open source distributed SQL query engine launched by Facebook engineers in 2012 as a follow-on to Apache Hive. The Presto Software Foundation launched on Thursday Read more…

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