“How do you change your direction of your career, your company, your organization? I think one of the misnomers that people think they have to do is that they have to grab the steering wheel and turn ...

DJ Patil is a smart guy who knows data – and he’ll play a key role in President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. But what the White House’s first-ever Chief Data Scientist is short on?

Today at Disrupt SF, our own Sarah Buhr took to the stage with DJ Patil, this nation’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist, and Phaedra Chrousos, who heads the ...

The newly named chief data scientist sketches the future of data-driven government. On Feb. 18, DJ Patil was named U.S. chief data scientist. The next morning, he was onstage at O'Reilly Media's ...

The White House has a new employee: Chief Data Scientist and Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy, DJ Patil. His high-level job description, according to the White House blog, is that he'll help ...