Yes, data can produce better policy – but it’s no substitute for real-world experience
Data-driven policy is often held up as the gold standard. But by reducing people to measurable statistics, it can also what’s ...
Williston Herald4h
Montana may start collecting immunization data
When epidemiologist Sophia Newcomer tries to evaluate how well Montana might be able to ward off the measles outbreak spreading across the U.S., she doesn’t have much data to work ...
An OpenAI ‘open’ model shows how much the company—and AI—has changed in two years
OpenAI now has its own reasons for releasing an open-weight model. Eighteen months ago, OpenAI was the undisputed champion of ...
Montana may start collecting immunization data again amid US measles outbreak
When epidemiologist Sophia Newcomer tries to evaluate how well Montana might be able to ward off the measles outbreak ...
Opinion
Dangerous Scripts: Bias in Custody Evaluations
Custody disputes often involve conflicting narratives about each parent. When evaluators encounter these competing stories, they risk falling into "angel and devil" script biases – the tendency to ...
A Data-Driven Digital Strategy: A Case Study From Voter Registration
The key to success lies in strategic execution, continuous optimization and an unwavering commitment to reaching the right audience at the right time.
Beyond generic benchmarks: How Yourbench lets enterprises evaluate AI models against actual data
Hugging Face warned that Yourbench is compute intensive but this might be a price enterprises are willing to pay to evaluate models on their data.
POWER Magazine2d
How Data Ecosystems Drive Operational Excellence in Power Generation
For the power and utility sector, operational excellence allows every member of a plant to visualize how workflows operate to ...
PV Tech3d
Moving beyond TMY: Why the solar industry needs time series data for PV project evaluation
As solar projects become more complex, Typical Meteorological Year data is holding the industry back, according to Solargis' ...
With AI models clobbering every benchmark, it's time for human evaluation
Human oversight of AI development has been a staple of progress in Gen AI. The development of ChatGPT in 2022 made extensive ...
National Bureau of Economic Research7d
Choosing Wisely: Evaluating Latent Factor Models in the Presence of a Contaminated Instrumental Variable with Varying Strength
Causal inference methods are widely used in empirical research; however, there is a paucity of evidence on the properties of shared latent factor estimators in the presence of contaminated ...