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Kaggle’s president and chief scientist Jeremy Howard poses with an orange Volkswagen in Mountain View, Calif. The founders of San Francisco startup Kaggle believe the problems data scientists solve are so important that they should be paid like professional athletes. By turning data science into a crowd-sourced contest, they hope they have created a way to make that happen. Kaggle hopes top contenders will participate in a sport tailor-made for the 21st century: Competitive number-crunching. As part of a study Howard found orange used cars are more likely to be a lemon. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

San Francisco startup make data science a sport

Marcus Wohlsen The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 4:26pm

SAN FRANCISCO — Strange secrets hide in numbers. For instance, an orange used car is least likely to be a lemon.

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FILE PHOTO-- Officers with the Ogden Police Department tape off the parking lot of the Western Colony Inn following a 16 hour standoff with Jason Valdez who had taken Veronica Jensen hostage and the two had to be forcefully removed Saturday, June 18, 2011 on 24th Street in Ogden, Utah.
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Solving crimes isn't as easy as it is on TV

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 4:31pm

OGDEN -- Believe it or not, some of that stuff on TV is made up. Law enforcement types wish reality would intrude on TV as much as TV intrudes on reality.

The raised expectations from the forensic miracles on such shows as "CSI" and "NCIS," even "Law & Order," just add an extra headache to the real-life job.

Jay Henry, director of the Utah State Crime Lab, aka Utah Bureau of Forensic Services, said he can't even watch.

"I don't watch the shows. They only have two cases an episode, and the whole staff is working on just those two. So what's that? Fifty cases a year? We do 4,000 cases a year."

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Institute gives visitors a hands-on experience in forensic science

Kathleen Megan, The Hartford Courant

Last updated Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 9:20am

HARTFORD, Conn. -- When you enter the new $14 million home of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, you are instantly immersed in the bloodstained world of forensic investigation, and particularly in the cases handled by Lee in his eminent career.

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