Ben Lorica, Author at Gradient Flow

One Simple Chart: Salaries and Cost of Living in Major Technology Hubs in the US

NLP in industry survey: We want to find out how people are using NLP, what tools they are using, and what challenges they face. Please take 5 minutes to fill out our survey and pass it along to your friends and colleagues. Tech workers in the SF Bay Area are paid higher because the costContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Salaries and Cost of Living in Major Technology Hubs in the US”

Notes from the 2020 Spark+AI Summit

I recently live-tweeted some of the keynotes from the 2020 #SparkAISummit and I collected the series of Twitter Threads in this short post: Matei Zaharia on Spark 3.0 Ali Ghodsi on Lakehouses Reynold Xin on Delta Engine and Photon Clemens Mewald on the Data Science Workspace Matei Zaharia on MLflow Kim Hazelwood on deep learningContinue reading “Notes from the 2020 Spark+AI Summit”

One Simple Chart: most companies use multiple cloud providers

Using more than one cloud service – or going multicloud– is increasingly the norm. I looked through six different surveys with release dates ranging from May/2019 to May/2020. The results consistently show that a vast majority of respondents worked at companies that use multiple cloud providers. This is consistent with the results of earlier surveysContinue reading “One Simple Chart: most companies use multiple cloud providers”

One Simple Chart: News Consumption in the US

A recent AAAS study – Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem – contained interesting data on news consumption in the US. Only a small share of minutes (14%) of total media consumption (Online and TV) is spent on news: The goal of the study was to put fake newsContinue reading “One Simple Chart: News Consumption in the US”

One Simple Chart: Technology and Automation in E-Commerce

With consumer spending shifting to e-commerce, I revisited recent surveys of executives in the e-commerce space. These surveys took place prior to the pandemic and included questions on technology spending and initiatives. A March 2020 survey from YOTTAA included data on investments plans and it includes terms that might not be familiar to those outsideContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Technology and Automation in E-Commerce”

One Simple Chart: China’s public investment in AI

Countries around the world view AI and machine learning as critical to modernizing their economies and their militaries. Two countries seem to hold an advantage over the rest: the US and China. A 2018 book by Kai-Fu Lee described the relative strengths of these two countries which includes things like access to large consumer marketsContinue reading “One Simple Chart: China’s public investment in AI”

One Simple Chart: Who Do Consumers Trust with their Data?

As machine learning and AI begin to show up in more applications and products, companies need to pay attention to concerns about data privacy and security. This isn’t news – companies have had to act as regulators all over the world have put in place data privacy regulations (there are many versions, but GDPR andContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Who Do Consumers Trust with their Data?”