Category: Learn Data Science
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TensorKart and Neural Networks for MarioKart
Kevin Hughes used TensorFlow to train a Neural Network to play MarioKart. He calls it TensorKart. See his post for more details. It is a nice blog post and sounds like a fun project.Sorry, the video has no sound.
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Georgia Tech Masters in Analytics for Less than $10k
Georgia Tech University just announced a new online master’s degree in Analytics. Georgia Tech Creates First Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Less Than $10,000 The degree will begin in August 2017 and will be fully online. It will offer 3 tracks: Big Data Analytical Tools Business Analytics (coming at a later date)
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Deep Learning Summer School 2016 Videos
Deep Learning Summer School, Montreal 2016 is aimed at graduate students and industrial engineers and researchers who already have some basic knowledge of machine learning (and possibly but not necessarily of deep learning) and wish to learn more about this rapidly growing field of research. If that is you, there are plenty of videos to…
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ACM Townhall Webinar with Peter Norvig
The Association for Computing Machinery is hosting a Town Hall with Peter Norvig on A.I., Machine Learning, and More. Peter Norvig is the Research Director at Google, and a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Topics he might discuss: deep learning future of AI teaching AI academia vs industry advice for grad students…
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Recent Free Online Books for Data Science
This is just a short list of a few books that I have have recently discovered online. Model-Based Machine Learning – Chapters of this book become available as they are being written. It introduces machine learning via case studies instead of just focusing on the algorithms. Foundations of Data Science – This is a much…
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Learn to Analyze Big Data with R – Free Course
R is a hugely popular language among data scientists and statisticians. One of the difficulties with open-source R is the memory constraint. All the data needs to be loaded into a data.frame. Microsoft solves this problem with the RevoScaleR package of the Microsoft R Server. Just launched this week is an EdX course on Analyzing…
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Know Your Probability Distributions
In data science and statistics, probability distributions can be very important. I have been meaning to create a listing of them. However, I no longer need to since the fine folks at Cloudera have already created a list at Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scientist’s Crib Sheet. Learn the distributions and pick a favorite. (My…
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Our World In Data
Our World in Data is data visualization site for exploring the history of civilization. The site was created by Max Roser. Our World in Data contains tons of information about many aspects of people’s lives. It also includes numerous visuals (like the one below) which can be easily shared or embedded on other sites. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy…
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Recent Resources for Open Data
Recently, a number of resources for publicly available datasets have been announced. Kaggle becomes the place for Open Data – I think this is big news! Kaggle just announced Kaggle Datasets which aims to be a repository for publicly available datasets. This is great for organizations that want to release data, but do not necessarily…
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Data Science Ethical Framework
The UK government has taken the first step in providing a solid grounding for the future of data science ethics. Recently, they published a “beta” version of the Data Science Ethical Framework. The framework is based around 6 clear principles: Start with clear user need and public benefit Use data and tools which have the…
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Machine Learning Yearning Book
Andrew Ng [Co-Founder of Coursera, Stanford Professor, Chief Scientist at Baidu, and All-Around Machine Learning Expert] is writing a book during the summer of 2016. The book is titled, Machine Learning Yearning. It you visit the site and signup quickly you can get draft copies of the chapters as they become available. Andrew is an…
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Berkeley Undergrad Data Science Course and Textbook
The University of California at Berkeley has started The Berkeley Data Science Education Program. The goal is to build a data science education program throughout the next several years by engaging faculty and students from across the campus. The introductory data science course is targeting freshman and it is taught from a very applicable and…