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What does 'digital transformation' mean for healthcare startups in 2019? - Technical.ly Philly
"One of the biggest problems with digital transformation," said Hassenplug, a former principal at KPMG and now a board member at ZH Healthcare, "is the word'transformation.' We've used it so much. It implies a radical change." Instead, he said to the gathered healthcare, life science, chemical and other execs, "you'd be wiser to avoid the term and talk about a'digital initiative' -- how it aligns with digital and business strategy and delivers results in the near-term." The summit, the second in the Philadelphia region over the past three months coordinated by a group of executives working in the industries discussed at the event -- including Hassenplug, Sandeep Katarnavre, David Demers, Tony D'Alessandro, Dawn Mahan, Meghan Beierschmidt and Christian Hoyvald -- was full of such practical advice for CIOs, CTOs and others hip-deep in innovation, digital and otherwise.
Can machine learning help more people access SNAP benefits? - Technical.ly Philly
Thanks to a machine learning model built in-house at Center City nonprofit Benefits Data Trust, call-center staffers get extra insights while enrolling users onto the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Deployed last week for Pennsylvania residents, the tool helps employees understand what level of assistance potential beneficiaries might need. BDT Director of Data Science Matt Stevens said the model is already in use, helping workers identify cases that may require a more hands-on approach through the application process, specifically for the documents submission phase. "This isn't making distinctions on how much benefits people can have access to, but rather what level guidance of support we should provide," Stevens said. The model, Stevens said, is in the initial phases of use and is expected to be deployed across all projects.
How Inspire is using big data to make clean energy more accessible - Technical.ly Philly
With the launch of its Smart Energy subscription plan this year in Philadelphia, Inspire fulfilled a major part of its vision, explained CTO Mike Durst from the company's Center City office. "Our mission is all about creating this brighter energy future," he said. "A pillar of that is getting as many people as possible on clean energy." The subscription plan combines a seamless sign-up, flat supply price, cash rewards (when you use less energy than predicted) and energy-saving smart devices to outfit your home. Also, Inspire's Smart Home app allows you to control the devices and monitor your energy use, all from your smartphone.
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Philly Twitter is negative, but not most negative, according to Data Jawn - Technical.ly Philly
The reboot of Data Jawn, the Philly-centric data science event that took place Wednesday at the Science History Insitute, came peppered with deep thoughts, good memes and hard data. Out of over a dozen speakers, perhaps the most striking was Magento's Ben Garvey, who analyzed 1.5 million geo-tagged tweets in answer the long-running question: Is the "negadelphia" myth true? Garvey captured over 100,000 tweets from each of the 13 biggest cities in the country and ran them through a speech sentiment analysis tool. "Philly is one of the least positive-tweeting cities in America," Garvey said, signaling our city's score of 0.72. Los Angeles tops the list as least negative city with a score of 0.99.
At Dreamit's HealthTech Demo Day, a penchant for machine learning and AI - Technical.ly Philly
Over the past 14 weeks, the seven startups in Dreamit's HealthTech accelerator got personalized coaching, sit-downs with buyers from Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine and meetings with investors in three cities. This Friday, as the program comes to a close, the companies will have a graduation of sorts by way of the program's Demo Day, happening at The Study at University City. Are you interested in connecting with Philadelphia's HealthTech leaders and hearing from the founders of innovative startups from the industry? Following pitches from the seven companies, HealthTech Managing Director Adam Dakin will host a fireside chat with execs from Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross about the future of healthcare innovation. The event is free and open to the public.
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#PTW18 Dev Talks cover blockchain, machine learning, leadership and everything in between - Technical.ly Philly
As part of Philly Tech Week 2018 presented by Comcast, the all-day Dev Conference at Temple University takes place Wednesday, May 2. We've got the goods on topics the entire tech industry has been buzzing about, so don't "Slack" off and miss it. Presented in a new format from last year's event, the talks will take place in four rooms, each with a specific focus: Attendees can stay in one place or float between rooms to learn a little something about everything. Conference event coordinator, Lauren Giles, urges anyone interested in the featured topics to attend. "I'm really excited about the new format and I'm hoping we'll get even more diverse attendees this year," Technical.ly's So, come one, come all!
Like data science and machine learning? Tune in to the Data Lab Podcast - Technical.ly Philly
There's a new tech podcast in town from recent Delaware transplant Dan Larson and CompassRed's Patrick Callahan: meet the Data Lab Podcast. The duo has been reaching out to data scientists to connect and chat about topics like data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. So far, the show has four episodes up and running, featuring data scientists Steve Poulin, Sean Grullon and Marieke Jackson, with a special appearance by Technical.ly "If you can remember by the coffee data viz I put together with my wife, I am a supernerd," Larson said in an email. "I genuinely love talking about data and the methods people use to process and analyze it. Patrick, the data guru of Delaware, loves the topic almost as much as I do. We met back in March to talk about data science and decided we wanted to talk with more data pros."
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Your hiring algorithm might be racist - Technical.ly Philly
If you're wondering why a company's staff lacks diversity, you might want to take a look at the computers behind their hiring process. Corporations are using technology in the hiring process in order to remedy historical and routine applicant discrimination, but the same technology can end up simply reinforcing this discrimination, said postdoctoral research associate Solon Barocas during "The Intersection of Data and Poverty," a Philly Tech Week 2016 presented by Comcast symposium organized by Community Legal Services and Philadelphia Legal Assistance and held at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads in Center City. Barocas spoke on a panel about "How Big and Open Data Harms the Poor," which was focused on the unintended consequences of data technology on vulnerable populations. Companies that use machine learning and big data in their hiring process use "training data," which is typically taken from prior and current employees. A statistical process then automatically discovers the traits that correlate to high performance among the training data and looks for those traits in the applicant pools. "For more and more companies, the hiring boss is an algorithm," a 2012 Wall Street Journal article reads.
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