Machine Learning at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Vinesh Kannan (CS '19) shares his experiences working as a... Show moreVinesh Kannan (CS '19) shares his experiences working as a
data science fellow at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Vinesh worked
on the team that produces occupation and wage data used by policymakers,
hiring staff, job seekers, and researchers across the country. He helped
improve machine learning systems at the BLS: automatically identifying
problematic training data and classifying rare jobs. Vinesh offers advice
for students who may be interested in applying for the 2020 Civic Digital
Fellowship, a program that recruits university students at all levels to
spend a summer working on civic technology projects with various federal
agencies.
Sponsorship: College of Science, Department of Computer
Science, Department of Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning at IIT Show less
