Category: Site of the Week
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Quora Answers by Monica Rogati
Monica Rogati, a legend in the data science space, recently provided some answers on Quora that are sheer internet gold. Quora Answers by Monica Rogati She answers questions involving: What is a data science advisor? Challenges of Building a data science team? Characteristics of a good data scientist? and more They are filled with great…
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Best Practices for Machine Learning Engineering
Martin Zinkevich, Research Scientist at Google, just compiled a large list (43 to be exact) of best practices for building machine learning systems. Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering If you do data engineering or are involved with building data science systems, this document is worth a look.
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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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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…