Mark Feffer
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Pennsylvania, United States
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Past articles by Mark:
Data Governance: What It Is, and How to Make It Successful
Data governance is a key concept that all successful data analytics and data science rest upon. Without it, there is only confusion. → Read More
Drowning in Data: The Risk Facing Companies Everywhere
It’s one thing for marketers to talk about “the flood of data.” It’s another thing for tech professionals such as data scientists to face it. → Read More
The Basics of Ethical Data Management for Technologists
More companies are bonding their data policies and ethics policies. This is a good thing, but are they going far enough? → Read More
Enterprise UX, UI Designers: Pay Attention to This Big Issue
Enterprise designers: Your users want the UX and UI of whatever you're designing to mirror what they're using in their personal lives. → Read More
Bias in A.I.: Killing It Requires Awareness, Context
Bias in A.I. remains a huge problem. In order to solve it, data scientists and A.I. researchers will need to take a hard look at how they treat data. → Read More
Mitigating Bias in A.I.: Tips and Tricks
Last year, we saw a steady drumbeat of stories examining bias in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning. It turns out that folks’ → Read More
How DevOps Principles Can Impact Your Entire Business
As DevOps settles into the tech industry and the broader corporate world—it’s not really considered “new” anymore—some tech pros have come to consider it → Read More
Mark Feffer, Author at Dice Insights
Mark Feffer started as a videotape editor back when there was videotape to edit, then joined the news desk at Dow Jones News/Retrieval, the company's first online product. He produced The Wall Street Journal's first multimedia CD-ROMs and published his novel, "September," in 2006. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, their fierce terrier, and a schnauzer who wonders why she ever left… → Read More
Measuring Employee Engagement with A.I. and Machine Learning
A small number of companies have begun developing new tools to measure employee engagement without requiring workers to fill out surveys or sit through → Read More
How Video Interviews are Steamlining Job Applications
The concept of video interviews for jobs isn’t new. We can’t pinpoint exactly when employers began using the internet’s bandwidth to see candidates → Read More
QA Testers: Coding Is Your Must-Have Professional Skill
QA testers have a complicated job, one made even more complicated by the introduction of automation and the increased pressure to learn to code. → Read More
A.I. Offers Jobs Beyond Data Science
Tech professionals almost reflexively associate artificial intelligence (A.I.) jobs with data, and with good reason. When Amazon announced plans to → Read More
Cannabis Industry Blooming with Tech Opportunities
Cannabis is now a big, legal business in much of the United States. Since California legalized its medical use in 1996, the industry that grows, packages, → Read More
Video Interviews Improve Workflow, Candidate Experience
Video interviews can make life much easier for hiring managers and recruiters who must process multiple candidates very quickly. → Read More
Assessment Tests: Why You're Facing More and More of Them
Despite the time and difficulty involved in finding the right candidates, more employers are adding a big step to their hiring process: assessment tests. → Read More
How Assessments Fit Into Your Hiring Process
To better their chances of making correct hires the first time, more companies are turning to talent assessment tools, which have tangible benefits. → Read More
Dealing with Crazy Startup Leaders: A Quick Guide
Startups are an important part of the tech world, often serving as the first employers for software developers, architects, engineers and the like. Unlike → Read More
Fighting Back Against Harassment in the Tech Industry
Not only has sexual harassment gotten a lot of media attention this year; it’s spurred a lot of action, too. As more employers re-evaluate their reporting systems and internal training, new reporting tools are popping up on the market. → Read More
Use Social Learning to Advance Your Tech Career
As more organizations adopt social learning (i.e., having employees informally teach each other) to help workers keep their skills up-to-date and learn about new tools, tech pros have an opportunity to set themselves apart by jumping in as the experts on specific topics. → Read More
Facing Down Sexual Harassment in the #MeToo Era
In the past year, high-profile incidents and the #MeToo movement’s rise have brought sexual harassment to the forefront of workplace issues. → Read More