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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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team June 25, 2026 Issue 117 Meet the CAN Team Senior AI Engineer: Thom Flaherty Early this year, Thom become a Senior AI Engineer at Contemporary Analysis. Thom Flaherty has spent 13 years building data infrastructure, shipping models, and convincing people to stop emailing spreadsheets. He's the kind of engineer who can walk into a company with no real data, science, or ML practice...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team June 18, 2026 Issue 116 Internal v. External AI Part of the reason so many AI projects fail is because c-suites are asking for AI for AI's sake. We take a different approach. We always begin with finding the right problem to solve first, then deciding on the best solution. Sometimes it's AI, sometimes it's not. But there is an interesting pattern I've noticed with our clients,...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team June 11, 2026 Issue 115 There's a new job title creating buzz: Forward Deployed Engineer This week, DataCamp posted on LinkedIn to share this new FDE role that "OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are all hiring for it right now. What do they do? FDEs embed directly inside client organizations to make AI actually work in production. Because 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail, not...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team June 4, 2026 Issue 114 Connect with Omaha's Data Community Two ways to connect this month. AI Omaha: Creative AI Across Music, Video, Art & Education Tonight, June 4th, at the Catalyst Building Join AI Omaha for an evening of revealing talks on how AI is playing out in music, video, education, design, and storytelling. You’ll hear from speakers who are actively using AI tools in...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team May 28, 2026 Issue 113 CANalytics 2026 in the Press Thank you to Lev Gringauz and Silicon Prairie News for attending CANalytics (for the second year in a row) and writing this great article! In case you missed it, here are Lev's 5 key takeaways: Solve the right problems Know your audience Use GEPA to save money on AI tools Quality assurance is changing in the age of AI Don’t...
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Presented by Contemporary Analysis & Omaha Data Science Academy A Weekly Upskill for Yourself, Your Data, Your Team May 21, 2026 Issue 112 Celebrating Omaha Data Science and AI Week + asking for feedback Last week was incredible. 150+ attendees across 3 events 60 attendees at CANalytics 20 certifications awarded to ODSA Students 2 awards given 1 Mayoral Proclamation 1,000+ smiles, laughs, data insights and lessons shared. Don't just take our word for it, here's what attendees had to say! Head...
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