Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team August 27, 2026 Issue 126 New classes, New you Classes at the Omaha Data Science Academy begin September 21st. If you're paying really close attention, you might have noticed a slight change in our start date. Originally, we were going to kick off the Fall Semester on the 14th, but it turns out, a couple of our ODSA instructors are speaking at conferences that week! Each of our...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team August 20, 2026 Issue 125 Join me for a beer TONIGHT from 4:30-630pm at the Casual Pint! Omaha is full of incredible people doing incredible things. This meet up is one small way to bring more attention to and strengthen our local data science community. I'll be waiting for you, drink tickets in hand! Whether you pop in or stick around for a while, we can't wait to see you and...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team August 13, 2026 Issue 124 Does your company move like the Ents in Lord of the Rings? Talking slow and deliberating forever, waiting until the absolute last minute to finally make a decision? If you're unfamiliar, the Ents are an ancient tree-like race who traditionally take a long time to speak and make decisions. You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team August 6, 2026 Issue 123 Events in Omaha Have plans this evening? Tonight is the monthly AI Omaha Meetup, and this month they will have two presentations happening at the same time. First up is our friend, Dr. Steve Green providing the technical track. He will be sharing: The Power of DINO Embeddings: Understanding How AI Sees Images How does AI recognize that two images are...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team July 30, 2026 Issue 122 In the Press: As AI cost and security concerns grow, CAN launches AI Workhorse to build secure nodes and reduce AI token costs for Nebraska companies Recently our team had the chance to sit down with Lev from Silicon Prairie News to share how we are building local AI infrastructure for Omaha and Nebraska through AI Workhorse and a partnership with Scott...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team July 23, 2026 Issue 121 It's time to pass the torch from one Chief Data Officer, Preston Badeer... to the next, Tyler Hayes. Tyler will join the illustrious group of CAN CDOs, with alumni including Data Science giants: Gordon Summers (for who the Data Scientist of the Year Award is named), James Rolfsen, and Tadd Wood. We are very excited to have him. But worry not!! Preston...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team July 16, 2026 Issue 120 Fall Classes at the Omaha Data Science Academy The ODSA Fall Semester begins in September. This is your last chance to earn a new Data Science Certificate before 2027. Here's the lineup: Business Intelligence Certificate Machine Learning Certificate Data Visualization Certificate Fundamentals of AI Agentic AI Engineer Certificate Whether you’re ready to...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team July 9, 2026 Issue 119 Meet the 2026 Data Scientist of the Year And the winner is... Skyler Meints Skyler Meints is a long-time cornerstone of the data science community. He currently serves as a Senior Data Analytics Engineer with Dozukie--an AI knowledge management company out of Southern California, where he was recruited to help them optimize data infrastructure for cost and...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team July 2, 2026 Issue 118 You've heard of the good, fast, cheap triangle in Project Management... You have three options: good, fast and cheap. You can have two, but you won't get three. While chatting with a client last week I realized... When you choose AI, one of your two is locked in for you: fast. AI does speed really well. It's trained on processes that already exist, so it...
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