Emcien is looking for an experienced software engineer with a focus on Ruby on Rails development to help build and improve our web applications. We work at the intersections of graph theory, information theory, statistics and machine learning, which lends to exciting…
The latest news in machine learning is all about hardware. New chip designs and additional GPUs are optimized for resource-intensive machine learning algorithms. Of course software hasn’t disappeared, but it seems almost secondary to specialized devices built…
For years analytics has been a field of descriptions and predictions. Analysts ask “What insights can come from this data?” Or “What is most likely to happen next?” The next frontier of analytics is prescriptive: “What’s the best course of action?” The first two tasks…
Patient readmission is one of the most pressing problems in healthcare today. This common performance metric is so important to effective healthcare that the federal government now imposes penalties for providers with excessive readmission rates. While it’s becoming…
We’re always excited to have great new people join the Emcien team, so now that Carmen, the newest member of our Data Science Services team, is wrapping up his training we figured we would check in with him and see how things are going: So Carmen, tell…