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Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Mar 11th, 2013
A STEM Infographic
Some commenters on the previous post The Catch-22 STEM Job Market requested a graphical presentation of the data. Note: STEM refers to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
The above bar chart (histogram) shows the results of...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Mar 4th, 2013
This article takes an evidence-based (or “data driven”) look at the job market for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) workers using job posts on the popular Craig’s List All San Francisco Bay Area and the nationwide, even...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Feb 6th, 2013
This article reviews the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)’s Report on Mathematics in Industry (MII) 2012 which surveys the use of mathematics in industry and the jobs taken by recent Ph.D.’s in mathematics, applied mathematics,...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Jan 21st, 2013
This article takes a deeper look at STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) jobs in private industry, with a particular emphasis on mathematics. What jobs are hot? What jobs are not hot?
STEM jobs and education is the subject of a great deal of press...
Posted by
Michael Koploy on
Oct 25th, 2012
This is a guest post by Michael Koploy. Interested in guest blogging for this site? Click here.
Seemingly overnight, data scientists have been pushed into the online spotlight. In the October 2012 edition of the Harvard Business Review, the position of “data...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Oct 17th, 2012
Business of Biotech: The Bathtub Mechanism (Cancer Research) by John McGowan Ph.D.
When: 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012
Where: BioCurious, 845 Stewart Drive, Suite C, Sunnyvale, CA, United States (Silicon Valley)
Price: $20.00 (US...
Posted by
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. on
Sep 24th, 2012
This article shows how to build a simple recommendation engine using GNU Octave, a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations, that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. A recommendation engine is a program that recommends items such as...