Tag: research

  • Storing Data On a Piece of Glass – Microsoft’s Project Silica

    Storing Data On a Piece of Glass – Microsoft’s Project Silica

    Last week at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Microsoft Research announced the release of Project Silica. This is an amazing new technology to store data on a piece of glass. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to sit down with Antony Rowstron, Deputy Lab Director at Microsoft Research, and ask him all my questions. What…

  • Microsoft Research Open Data Search

    Microsoft Research Open Data Search

    Microsoft Research Open Data is a search engine for free datasets available from Microsoft Research. The datasets are primarily aimed at Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computer vision. Take a look if you are in need of a dataset for your next project.

  • One Pixel Attacks on Neural Networks

    An enlightening video about how a single pixel change can fool a neural network.

  • Deep Learning Research Paper Lists for Summer 2017

    Deep Learning Research Paper Lists for Summer 2017

    A timeline of Deep Learning papers (with download links) written since 2011 A large collection of Deep Learning papers broken out by specific topic. It also includes ratings. A list of papers to compliment Deep Learning Book The last links are not official academic papers, but they are quite good resources on deep learning. Revolution…

  • 5 Data Science Research Papers to read in Summer 2017

    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…

  • Twitter Open Data Grants

    Twitter has just released the idea of a Data Grant. You have to login with your twitter account to see the details. The gist is: Twitter will provide you with historical twitter data for research purposes. What could you do with this data?

  • 7 Important Data Science Papers

    7 Important Data Science Papers

    It is back-to-school time, and here are some papers to keep you busy this school year. All the papers are free. This list is far from exhaustive, but these are some important papers in data science and big data. Google Search PageRank – This is the paper that explains the algorithm behind Google search. Hadoop…

  • 12 Useful Tips for Machine Learning

    Pedro Domingos of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington provides a very useful paper with tips for machine learning. The paper is title, A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf]. Below are the 12 useful tips. LEARNING = REPRESENTATION + EVALUATION + OPTIMIZATION IT’S GENERALIZATION THAT…

  • New Data Science Journal

    Springer has just release a new data science journal named EPJ Data Science. The journal is open access which means that articles are freely available online. That catch is that people whom submit articles must pay a fee for publication. Sometimes the fee will be covered by the author’s university or company. Anyhow, if you…

  • Highlights of the White House BigData Research Initiative

    Yesterday’s announcement included a few main highlights: NIH will make 200TB of human genetic variation data freely available on Amazon Web Services NSF will provide $2M in support of undergraduate education for studying graphical and visualization techniques of bigdata DoD will announce some prize competitions in the coming months Numerous other projects to increase data…

  • White House is Announcing $200M BigData Research Initiative

    White House is Announcing BigData Initiative