The Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau has employment opportunities for qualified graduates in geography and related fields.
A posting for recent graduates (typically, people who have graduated within the past two years) opens today, September 9, and will only remain open until 100 applications have been received. To apply, please visit USAjobs.gov and enter “Census Bureau” in the keyword search to see current postings and complete an application, or go directly to the...
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By: Dr. Wei Luo
Abstract: Human interaction and population mobility determine the spatio-temporal course of the spread of an airborne disease. This research views such spreads as geo-social interaction problems, because population mobility connects different groups of people over geographical locations via which the viruses transmit. Previous research argued that geo-social interaction patterns identified from population movement data can provide great potential in designing effective pandemic mitigation. However, little work has been...
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By: Dr. Alex Liu, Chief Data Scientist, IBM & Director, RMDS Lab
Abstract: More and more organizations are embracing data science, but the success ratios of data science projects have been low - at the 30% level for years per surveys conducted by Gartner and others. To attack this problem and help mitigating risks of other associated issues such as the high turnover ratio of data scientists, an ecosystem approach with AI...
