2019 Newsletter Editions

AS PART OF our mission, we at ACDS must act as a catalyst for tech talent, making sure that our state’s supply is sufficient to meet the demand. That’s easy to say but complicated to do, and the more we work at it the more we understand the ongoing task ahead of us. As we’ve […]

DATA CRUSHES THE COLD CALL How technology is revolutionizing selling (not to mention learning) Damon Neiser, Regional Director of Sales, DreamBox Learning I’VE WORKED IN sales in the public sector for more than a decade, starting at Hewlett-Packard selling the backbones of IT infrastructure to school districts, universities, and local governments, eventually transitioning into education

Deputy Chief Data Officer, State of Arkansas JUST THINK OF all the data your home state has on you—tax records, health records, mortgage records, driving records, law enforcement records. Recently we sat down with Adita Karkera, the deputy chief data officer for the state of Arkansas, to ask what she and her colleagues are doing

Disney does Data… how machine learning helps us understand CEOs… technology updates the ancient spice trade. Check it all out right here. Ad Giant Wins Over Disney with Big Data Pitch What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style How technology is changing the spice trade:: Single-source spices come with tasting notes and the

Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director IN PAST ISSUES, I’ve talked about the “why” and “who” of registered apprenticeships, and this month I want to discuss the “how.” What I mean by that is training. We live in a world in which tech skills have become so specialized that no apprenticeship candidate arrives with all the knowledge

Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director THE MORE WE venture into the world of apprenticeships, the more diverse the readership of our ACDS newsletter becomes. For example, we now attract business leaders who’re interested in how apprenticeships can help their companies, candidates wanting to know more about how they can become apprentices, training providers ready to play

EVP and Chief Information Officer, J.B. Hunt IF YOU THINK you know how a trucking company works, think again. At J.B. Hunt—full name J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.—the business of transporting freight from point A to point B is being totally reinvented through data science. And the man charged with leading this transformation is Stuart

IT’S TIME FOR the ACDS team to get a little well-earned recognition. If you’ve been following Lonnie Emard’s articles in the Apprenticeship Report, you have a pretty good grasp of the overall process. It begins with our contacting prospective Arkansas employers, and over the past 100 days we’ve been focused on creating first an awareness,

TODAY’S FARM IMPLEMENTS How technology and data help fight the battle against Mother Nature L. Dow Brantley III, President, Brantley Farming Company I AM A third-generation Arkansas farmer, working land located near the community of England, about 30 miles east of Little Rock. My grandfather, Laudies Dow Brantley Sr., was at first a sharecropper who

The Arkansas Academy of Computing is administered by the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. The purpose of the organization is to: As the Academy notes in their introduction of Bill: Bill Yoder leads the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) team