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COVID-19 Data Models: A guide for Public Sector Officials

This blog was originally published on civstart.org on May 26, 2020 Data science and predictive modeling are increasingly important in modern-day governments, and this is especially true as teams focus…

Public Sector
Coronavirus Pulse Research Month One: Opinions, behaviors shift as quarantine lengthens, unemployment worsens

Civis is fielding regular surveys to track public opinion on issues related to the coronavirus pandemic and our national response. The below analysis reviews the first four weeks of survey…

Healthcare
Public Sector | Coronavirus Pulse Survey Research

Civis Analytics Weekly Report  |  Fielded April 2-3 and April 10-12, 2020 State and local governments across the country need to make quick decisions to prevent or delay the spread…

Public Sector
Our Journey to SOC 2 Type II Compliance and How You Can Do It Too

As Civis’ General Counsel, my day-to-day is filled with a wide-ranging mix of business and legal issues, including leading our data protection efforts… and also a lot of keeping this guy out…

Company News
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
Data science and the midterm elections: breaking down the results

Civis’s political data science team has gotten a number of questions since the midterm elections, so we wanted to share some of our insights more broadly given the widespread interest.…

Political
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

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