Category: Learn Data Science
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Online Manifesto Data Practices
A group of data-minded people have put together a manifesto for data practices. It is available on the Data Practices website. It lists ethics, values, and principles for effective data teamwork. You are invited to read and sign if you agree.
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Kaggle Career Conference 2018
Kaggle, the online data science competition platform, will be hosting a free online conference for people interested in landing their first data science job. Kaggle CareerCon 2018 on March 20, 2018. There are a bunch of great speakers lined up, and all the talks are focused on preparing someone to get a data science job…
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Reinforcement Learning
Simply stated: Reinforcement Learning deals with actions and rewards (positive or negative). The rewards help to dictate the future actions. Many children learn via reinforcement learning. Here is a simple example from my childhood. As a child, I was told not to touch the hot stove. My action: I touched the door of the hot…
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Coursera’s New Online Masters of Applied Data Science Degree
Coursera has partnered with the University of Michigan to launch a new master’s degree entirely online through the Coursera platform. The new Master of Applied Data Science degree will launch in Fall of 2019. Also of interest, Arizona State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign both announced masters degrees in computer science (both…
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SQL Tutorial from Chartio
Chartio put together a nice online interactive tutorial for learning SQL. SQL is almost an essential tool for data science. Rarely is there a project where knowing SQL is not necessary.
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Microsoft Weekly Data Science News for March 02, 2018
Here are the latest articles from Microsoft regarding cloud data science products and updates. Announcing new milestones for Microsoft Cognitive Services vision and search services in Azure – Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. At Microsoft, we believe everyone—developers, data scientists and enterprises—should…
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Data Science Live Book
Pablo Casas has published a book freely available online, Data Science Live Book. To quote from the book, It is a book about data preparation, data analysis and machine learning. The book is open source, and the code examples are written in R.
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Columbia University Applied Machine Learning Online
Columbia University’s course Applied Machine Learning Spring 2018 by Andreas C. Müller has all the lecture notes, slides, homework, and videos posted online. Andreas is also the author of the book Introduction to Machine Learning with Python.
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DataCamp Community News Site
DataCamp recently launched a new community site, Data Science News, for sharing and discovering data science news. It is similar to Hacker News if you are familiar with that site.
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Google Colaboratory
Google has recently released a Jupyter Notebook platform called Google Colaboratory. You can run Python code in a browser, share results, and save your code for later. It currently does not support R code.
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4 Steps to Finding Your Data
So, you have identified a fascinating new problem to solve with data. You correctly started with a problem and not the data. It seems both beneficial and interesting. Now where do you get the data? Here are 4 steps (in order) for how to find data. 1. Existing Data The best place to start is…
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Getting the most from your Data Science Masters Program
Enrolling in a master’s degree program in data science or business analytics is no small feat. It takes a lot of time, determination, and money. It can all be worth it as a more fulfilling and higher paying job might be in your future. However, just earning the degree does not guarantee a job in…