Last year, when I was looking at a publicly-released Excel file on school test scores that had been released by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) for the District of Columbia, I guessed that something was not working as intended. While much of the data was suppressed
When organizations release data but redact or suppress certain parts of it, like information pertaining to small subgroups, some information they reveal can let viewers infer the information that was hidden. One of the things that can give away what they were trying to keep secret is percentages. If you
By Capital Technology Group's Fall 2022 Data Science intern, Akiva Neuman. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a list of recommendations for making web content more accessible for people with disabilities as well as for all users. The WCAG states that the contrast requirement for text visibility
In any organization that relies on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for authentication of users and/or devices, one of the key pillars in supporting that infrastructure is the validation of certificates. The story goes like this: Your organization has gone through the effort of either setting up a Certificate Authority
One common challenge many software development teams encounter is verifying certificates and completing SSL handshakes. This issue manifests in multiple places: * Custom or COTS code fails to connect to external APIs * Dependency management fails to trust https repositories * External partners fail to connect to internally developed services without disabling certification
internship
Over eight short weeks, four of our talented interns—Aiden Nguyen, Hadas Hirt, Adam Janicki and Estee Brooks—developed a beta version of Govpinions to easily visualize and analyze patterns in public comments on government regulations. Understanding the Problem We'll start with a quick refresher on the U.
deep learning
This is the first in a series of two posts detailing the work our fabulous summer interns did in 2021. Want to join us for the summer of 2022? Apply to join us! This past summer two of our interns, David Wu and Chemda Wiener, developed a deep learning model
One thing we expect from our team is that with experience we should be improving our skills. We should learn new technologies and techniques and get better at the ones we already know. We should be curious about what else it out there and learn about them so that when
devops
Advances in cloud technology and virtualization have introduced a new paradigm for managing infrastructure. The manual, tedious, and error-prone process of going to a cloud service provider (CSP) portal, selecting resources you want to create, and clicking through workflow steps has been replaced with a more repeatable and elegant solution:
data visualization
The Hospital Compare project is an ongoing, collaborative effort between Capital Technology Group and Datawheel to rethink the dissemination of public data provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Appreciating the critically important and rich data that CMS publishes, we set out on a research and development
career development
As CTG continues to grow, we are working carefully to ensure we maintain our culture and values as we scale. We also want to ensure our team has a clear understanding of our available career trajectories, and how we anticipate expectations and responsibilities to grow as our team members progress