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Reducing bias and ensuring fairness in data science

Here at Civis, we build a lot of models. Most of the time we’re modeling people and their behavior because that’s what we’re particularly good at, but we’re hardly the…

Civis Data Science, Company News
From Science to Production: Unleash your Jupyter Notebooks

Data scientists are explorers. They use Jupyter Notebooks, one of the most popular environments for data science analysis, to begin work toward creative solutions to big problems. But once those…

Civis Data Science, Civis Engineering
The best Mario Kart character according to data science
The best Mario Kart character according to data science

Mario Kart was a staple of my childhood — my friends and I would spend hours after school as Mario, Luigi, and other characters from the Nintendo universe racing around…

Civis Data Science
Interviewing with Tech at Civis Analytics

Let’s be real. Interviews can be weird, challenging, awkward, confusing, and complicated all at the same time. At Civis, we want to make this experience as best as possible for…

Life at Civis
6 Ways You Might Be Unintentionally Introducing Bias Into Your Marketing Surveys

Note: this piece originally appeared in Adweek By now, everyone can agree: done right, data-based insights can drive smarter, more personalized touchpoints with the people that matter, and improve the overall…

Civis Data Science
Identity Resolution and the Power of Unified Person-level Data

Civis IDR: Your Answer to Siloed, Incomplete, Messy Data on the People who Matter Most Civis Identity Resolution (IDR) is a cloud-based application that links together person-level data from multiple…

Business, Civis Engineering, Nonprofit, Political
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Bringing Big Data to Big Macs: Lessons from McDonald’s Successful Adoption of Data Science for Personalized Marketing

Background: Civis began a data technology partnership with McDonald’s North America Marketing and Data Science teams in late 2017, and — after a year and a half of keeping our…

Business, Quick Service Restaurant
Creative Focus: Reach the right people with the right message in any industry

Today, we’re excited to announce General Availability of Civis Creative Focus, our online message testing tool. Now, users in any industry can build better messaging, create more focused advertisements, and generate positive…

Business, Civis Data Science
Census 2020: One of our country’s most important marketing campaigns

The Census — a constitutionally mandated count of all residents in the United States — occurs only once every 10 years, so it’s not always top of mind. But, what…

Public Sector
Now Available on Civis Platform: New Ways to use Data with Postgres, PostGIS, and More

Happy New Year from the Civis Platform team! Today, we’re excited to announce native support for PostgreSQL on Civis Platform. Harnessing the power of Postgres, Platform users can now run high-performing,…

Civis Data Science, Civis Engineering
How often does it get *this* cold in Chicago? A statistical exploration with TensorFlow and open government data

This short post is going to talk about an interesting statistical distribution, the Gumbel distribution, and how to use TensorFlow and SciPy to fit that distribution on historical weather data provided…

Civis Data Science
The Opportunity Project: A new model for civic tech

As part of our public sector work, Civis is always on the lookout for pro bono projects. Not only does this offer us a way to contribute to civic good,…

Public Sector
A Journey into DevOps at Civis

According to LinkedIn, DevOps engineering positions were the most recruited position overall of 2018. Needless to say, there are tons of opportunities for those interested. To provide some insight into…

Civis Engineering, Life at Civis
D3 for Data Scientists, Part I: A re-usable template for combining R and D3 to build interactive visualizations

The path to D3 mastery is dark and full of terrors. D3 itself is a JavaScript (JS) library and on top of that, you’ll need a basic understanding of HTML (Hypertext…

Civis Engineering
Making Interactive Maps of Public Data in R

For a version of this post with interactive maps, check it out on GitHub. Introduction Oftentimes, when working with public data, there will be a geospatial component to the data —…

Civis Data Science, Civis Engineering
2020 Census Kicks Off in Exactly One Year

One year from today, everyone living in the United States will be asked to respond to the decennial Census, our once-in-a-decade chance to do our civic duty. The Census is…

Civis Data Science, Public Sector
Backlash is real — and it’s more common than you’d think

Back in 2017, Dove released a short but highly controversial ad on Facebook. Even though the GIF ad lasted just a few seconds, the backlash over its racial insensitivity immediately caught…

Business
Designing for User Limitations

Beyond the phrase “you are not your user” part 2 The first part of this series alludes to two ideas. One, product design (and its many similarly named, interactive, user-centered siblings) intersects…

Civis Engineering

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