Tag: machine learning
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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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The 3 Stages of Data Science
Businesses everywhere are racing to extract meaningful insight from their data. Many organizations are spinning up data science teams and attacking problems (some more successful than others). However, one of the challenges is determining the current stage of data science within the organization. Next is determining the desired stage of data science. Below are 3…
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5 Data Science Research Papers to read in Summer 2017
In the past, the blog has included 7 Important Data Science Papers and 5 More Data Science Papers. Here is another list if you are looking for something to read over the summer. Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice Probabilistic machine learning and artificial intelligence A survey on…
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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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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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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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A Couple of Current Data Science Competitions
Decoding Brain Signals Microsoft has recently announced a machine learning competition platform. As part of the launch, one of the first competitions is the prediction of brain signals. It has $5000 in prizes, and submissions are accepted thru June 30, 2016. Big Data Viz Challenge Google and Tableau have teamed up to offer a big…
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Getting Started with Data Science Specialties
I frequently ask young people, particularly undergraduates, what they plan to do with their future. I am often less than enthused with the responses which sound something like this: I hope to get a job doing statistics. I just want to work with computers. I want to be a data scientist. I just want a…
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Yahoo Just Released a Huge Machine Learning Dataset
Yahoo just released a 1.5 TB dataset of “anonymized user interactions on the news feeds”. If you have been looking for a new dataset to analyze, this just might be it. It contains approximately 110 billion rows of data regarding user-news interactions. Happy data exploring!
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An executive’s guide to machine learning | McKinsey & Company
via An executive’s guide to machine learning | McKinsey & Company. A nice read if you are looking for a short introduction to the history and importance of machine learning.
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Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (Free Book Download)
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University, Israel, and Shai Ben-David, Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The book looks very thorough. Below is just a sampling of the topics covered.…
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One Algorithm To Learn Anything [An Interview with Pedro Domingos, Author of The Master Algorithm]
Releasing today (Sept. 22, 2015) is the fantastic new book, The Master Algorithm, by machine learning expert and University of Washington Computer Science Professor, Pedro Domingos. Recently, I got the opportunity to visit with Dr. Domingos about his new book and machine learning in general. See below for his fears of machine learning, thoughts on…