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Twitter text analytics reveals COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy tweets have crazy traction
Despite the good news emanating from COVID-19 vaccine trials, governments should understand hesitancy concerns to ensure a successful roll-out plan. The analysis identified 243,000 tweets from the UK and US that referred to a possible COVID-19 vaccine Hesitancy tweets were not just a more significant portion of the vaccine conversation,

Europe’s largest data science community launches the digital network platform for this year’s conference
The DN Unlimited Conference will take place online for the first time this year More than 100 speakers from the fields of AI, machine learning, data science, and technology for social impact, including from The New York Times, IBM, Bayer, and Alibaba Cloud Fully remote networking opportunities via a virtual

Three Trends in Data Science Jobs You Should Know
If you are a Data Scientist wondering what companies could have the most career opportunities or an employer looking to hire the best data science talent but aren’t sure what titles to use in your job listings — a recent report using Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph could hold some answers for

Global searches for nearby jobs skyrockets by 242% in the last three months
The number of people searching for nearby jobs has skyrocketed in the last three months due to various factors like the current coronavirus pandemic. Data acquired by Finbold indicates that based on queries logged on the search engine Google, the global interest in the phrase ‘job hiring near me’ grew

No Keys to the Kingdom: New Single Sign-On Algorithm Provides Superior Privacy
Researchers develop cryptographic scheme that completely hides your personal information from third parties when using single sign-on systems. Single sign-on systems (SSOs) allow us to login to multiple websites and applications using a single username and password combination. But these are third party systems usually handled by Big Tech companies

How community-sourced tech targets coronavirus in Greece
From a shortage of medical equipment to caring for patients remotely, Data Natives’ global community tackled the most pressing problems Greece is facing due to COVID-19 during HackCoronaGreece online hackathon. Some weeks ago, here in Europe, we were looking at the news headlines about the coronavirus outbreak in China and

Hackathons and action groups: how tech is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic has generated a wide variety of responses from citizens, governments, charities, organizations, and the startup community worldwide. At the time of writing, the number of confirmed cases has now exceeded 1,000,000, affecting 204 countries and territories. From mandated lockdowns to applauding health workers from balconies, a

#HackCorona 2.0: Open-source hardware, telehealth & pandemic forecasts
According to WHO, it took more than 3 months to reach the first 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, but only 12 days to reach 200,000, 4 days to reach 300,000, 3 days to reach 400,000 and another 5 to reach 700,000. China’s cases rocketed in the early weeks of

How ensembles can reduce machine learning’s carbon footprint
Commercial and industrial applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning are unlocking economic opportunities, transforming the way we do business, and even helping to solve complex social and environmental problems. In fact, generative applications of this technology have become tools for environmental sustainability. With machine learning’s capability to analyze and

HackCorona: 300 participants, 41 nationalities, 23 solutions to fight COVID-19 outbreak
In just one day, the HackCorona initiative gathered over 1700 people and 300 selected hackers came up with 23 digital solutions to help the world fight the COVID-19 outbreak during the 48-hour long virtual hackathon by Data Natives and Hacking Health. Here are the results. HackCorona was created on March 17th