SHANNON JONES IS from White Hall, Arkansas. She taught third grade, sixth grade, and middle school, in both public and private schools, over about a dozen years. But then, as she says, ‚ÄúLife threw me a curve ball.‚ÄĚ It came in the form of two of her family members getting sick, so Shannon left her […]
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WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY… A WORKING GLOSSARY FOR THE DIGITAL AGE REMEMBER THE TOWER of Babel? Tech talk can be a little like that. So to make sure we’re all on the same page, here’s a glossary of terms as defined by the Governor’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on the Economic Competitiveness of Computing and
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A Brief History of Big Data Just because cavemen didn‚Äôt have computers doesn‚Äôt mean the data wasn‚Äôt there BERNARD MARR THE HISTORY OF ‚ÄúBig Data‚ÄĚ as a term may be short, but many of the foundations it is built on were laid long ago. Many decades before computers as we know them today were commonplace,
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MAKING AN OLD IDEA NEW AGAIN How apprenticeships can easeArkansas’ tech talent problem Charles D. Morgan, CEO First Orion SOMETIMES WHEN YOU’VE got a problem moving forward, the best way to solve it is by looking back. It’s true in writing. It’s true in coding. And some of us here in Arkansas think it’s also
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WELCOME TO THE very first issue of the ACDS newsletter. Everything about us is new, except for the strategic planning that brought about our existence in the first place. In March 2017, Governor Asa Hutchinson challenged a Blue Ribbon Commission to research and provide recommendations for ways to advance the “economic competitiveness of data analytics
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