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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. serving students with print disabilities.

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Tableau partners with the government of India to build students’ data skills

Tableau

It’s one of our guiding principles at Tableau and why we support students and instructors around the globe through Tableau Academic Programs. When I first joined the Tableau Academic Programs Team in 2017, many professors would refer me to their Computer Science or Statistics department. Manager, APJ Community. Kristin Adderson.

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UK ditches exam results generated by biased algorithm after student protests

The Verge

The UK has said that students in England and Wales will no longer receive exam results based on a controversial algorithm after accusations that the system was biased against students from poorer backgrounds , Reuters and BBC News report. In the UK, A-levels are the set of exams taken by students around the age of 18.

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A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News

The Verge

College student Liam Porr used the language-generating AI tool GPT-3 to produce a fake blog post that recently landed in the No. To simplify things, the program has been trained on a huge corpus of text that it’s mined for statistical regularities. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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40 Volunteer Statistics That Will Blow Your Mind

Volunteer Hub

Take a look at these 40 volunteer statistics…they will blow you away. Check out the following 40 volunteer statistics. Volunteer statistics. Individuals between the ages of 35 and 54 are the most likely to volunteer their time according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics. Did you like these volunteer statistics ?

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Tableau partners with the government of India to build students’ data skills

Tableau

It’s one of our guiding principles at Tableau and why we support students and instructors around the globe through Tableau Academic Programs. When I first joined the Tableau Academic Programs Team in 2017, many professors would refer me to their Computer Science or Statistics department. Manager, APJ Community. Kristin Adderson.

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Benetech’s Daniel Guzmán Publishes Account of Landmark Guatemalan Human Rights Case

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guzmán’s article, entitled Speaking Stats to Justice: Expert Testimony in a Guatemalan Human Rights Trial Based on Statistical Sampling , appears in the most recent issue of CHANCE, a quarterly journal published by the American Statistical Association. His family never stopped looking for him.

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