Author Archive

Dan Kopf

Emerging Tech

The Hottest Tools in Coding This Year Included React and Python

Programming trends can offer insight into what businesses are investing in.

Digital Government

The U.S. Plans to Stop Releasing its Most Detailed Census Data

The Census Bureau has privacy concerns.

Emerging Tech

R and Python Are Joining Forces, in the Most Ambitious Crossover Event of the Year—For Programmers

R and Python are essential tools for data scientists working at tech platforms.

Digital Government

For a Long, Successful Career, LinkedIn Says Nothing Beats a Liberal Arts Major

Some degrees provide more “cross-functional skills”

Emerging Tech

Driverless Cars Will Make A Lot of Jobs Better, Not Destroy Them

A recent report from the Commerce Department identified 11.7 million workers in occupations for which driving is an important task.

Emerging Tech

It Pays to Keep Your Online Presence Thoroughly Up to Date

The quality of your online presence has real-world consequences.

Artificial Intelligence

Will Robots Take Our Jobs? Perceptions Matter As Much As Reality

The average person's opinion matters.

Artificial Intelligence

Low-Skill Workers Aren’t Actually the Ones Most Threatened by Robots

Thanks primarily to automation, and to a lesser extent globalization, no rich country’s middle-skilled workers are safe.

Digital Government

Federal Government Is Concerned Coworkers Don’t Hang Out As Much As They Used To

A newly released unusual document highlights that Americans spend less time with their colleagues than they did in the 1970s.

Digital Government

New Research Shows Who Will Be Hurt—And Helped—If America’s Tech Industry Can’t Hire World’s Best Talent

The H-1B visa was created for college graduates with knowledge in a highly specialized field.