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ODSC East 2018 – Open Source Data Science Project Award Winner : the Chainer Framework

While ODSC brings together the future of AI at each of its conferences for conversations and continued collaboration to...

Conferencesposted by ODSC Team May 17, 2018

While ODSC brings together the future of AI at each of its conferences for conversations and continued collaboration to...

Drew Conway, PhD, Founder and CEO at Alluvium, Cofounder of DataKind discusses best practices for building strong data science teams at ODSC East 2018

Career Insightsposted by Alex Amari May 16, 2018

Key Points: Hiring managers and business leaders often overestimate data scientists’ capabilities, resulting in inefficiencies in the hiring process...

What I Enjoyed Most at ODSC East 2018

Conferencesposted by Kristen Kehrer May 14, 2018

Last week I had the opportunity to attend Open Data Science Conference in Boston. It was awesome to see...

A Twitter Review of ODSC East 2018

Conferencesposted by George McIntire, ODSC May 14, 2018

Earlier this month, another successful edition of the Open Data Science Conference occurred in Boston. It was one of...

An Open Data Science Live Stream For the Ages: ODSC East 2018 Recap

Conferencesposted by Alex Amari May 11, 2018

On May 1-4th, 2018, data scientists from around the world gathered in Boston, Massachusetts for the fourth annual Open...

The 4th Annual Data Science Summit

Conferencesposted by ODSC Team May 10, 2018

Announcing the 4th Annual Data Science Summit in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Data Science Summit will be held in Tel Aviv on May...

ODSC East 2018: Reflections on the Gathering of the Future of AI

Conferencesposted by ODSC Team May 7, 2018

ODSC East 2018 is over. The future of AI was discussed, new connections were made, and exciting hacks were...

A Closer Look at ODSC Boston’s Keynote Speakers

Conferencesposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC May 1, 2018

ODSC East 2018 is here. Thousands of developers, researchers, academics, business professionals and students will gather to at what...

Announcing The ODSC Grant – Supporting the Startup and Data Science Community

Announcementsposted by ODSC Team Apr 30, 2018

ODSC hosts one of the largest communities of data scientist and AI experts. We are constantly looking for ways...

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The History of Neural Networks and AI: Part 2

This article is the second article in a three-part series about the history of neural networks and artificial intelligence....

Deep Learningposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC May 23, 2018

This article is the second article in a three-part series about the history of neural networks and artificial intelligence....

Data Visualization Throughout the Data Science Workflow: Part 1

Data Visualizationposted by Lindsay Brin May 23, 2018

Scientists, including data scientists, often focus on numerical methods and analyses, glossing over visualization and communication. We want to...

Demystifying Black-Box Models with SHAP Value Analysis

Modelingposted by Civis Analytics Team May 22, 2018

As an Applied Data Scientist at Civis, I implement the latest data science research to solve real-world problems. We...

$“I hate math!” – Education and Artificial Intelligence to find a meaning$

“I hate math!” – Education and Artificial Intelligence to find a meaning

Modelingposted by Pablo Casas May 21, 2018

Well, what you hate is the way that math was taught to you. That soup of equations, abstractions, and...

An Overview of Proxy-label Approaches for Semi-supervised Learning

Deep Learningposted by Sebastian Ruder May 18, 2018

Note: Parts of this post are based on my ACL 2018 paper Strong Baselines for Neural Semi-supervised Learning under Domain...

Least Squares Solutions to Over- or Underdetermined Systems

Modelingposted by John Cook May 17, 2018

It often happens in applications that a linear system of equations Ax = b either does not have a solution or has infinitely...

The Mystical Underpinnings of Facebook’s Anti-Fake News Algorithms

Modelingposted by Marcelo Rinesi May 16, 2018

Imagine you’re Rene Descartes, data scientist at Facebook in charge of saying true things. Problem is, your only input...

Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Modelingposted by Erik Bernhardsson May 15, 2018

I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in...

Ask America Anything Results: Broad Support for Programs that Benefit Children

Modelingposted by Civis Analytics Team May 14, 2018

Here at Civis Analytics, we recently discovered that an estimated eighty-one percent of Americans support increased federal spending on...

Sprint establishes online #IoT Factory, a marketplace where businesses of all sizes can purchase state-of-the-art technology solutions.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 23, 2018

Machine learning in the legal world has potential to remedy the access-to-justice problem, but the field suffers from a dearth of data that is impeding progress.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 23, 2018

Is data the new oil? #GDPR may be the biggest step thus far towards preventing private monopolies in the digital economy, yet it’s only the beginning.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 23, 2018

By providing early diagnosis, #AI could prevent thousands of cancer deaths each year by 2033. UK Prime Minister Theresa May set aside millions in government funding to make this a reality.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 23, 2018

The retail industry typically loses $500 billion each year to overstocking or understocking, but #AI could fix that. A blockchain-based platform that uses AI to predict fluctuations in product stock is on the rise.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 23, 2018

France, China, and the EU have developed comprehensive strategies for #AI, but the US has yet to make the jump. AI has surged in the US private sector, but lack of public investment ignites worries about falling behind globally.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 22, 2018

Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines, a Berkeley startup working to bring the conversational capabilities of #AI closer to those of humans.

Newsposted by ODSC Team May 22, 2018

Conference Spotlight

New Resume Drop for ODSC East 2018 Career Fair in Boston Now Open!

Introducing ODSC’s new resume drop. No long forms, web logins or editing. This is as easy as dropping your resume on a table. Upload your resume into the new resume drop today for partner companies to consider you for openings. Please note: Any resumes that were uploaded prior to Friday April 27th, 2018 will no longer be available to hiring companies.

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Artificial Intelligence at the Edge – Jameson Toole – ODSC Meetup

Machine learning and AI models now outperform humans on tasks ranging from image recognition to language translation. However, sending video, audio, and other sensor data up to the cloud and back is too slow for apps like Snapchat, features like “Hey, Siri!”, and autonomous machines like self-driving cars. This talk outlines why developers should be deploying deep learning models to the edge, common roadblocks they will face, and how to overcome them.

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How to Develop a Blockchain Strategy: a Roadmap

Knowing what blockchain is and how it can contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges is one...

Accelerate AIposted by Mark van Rijmenam May 18, 2018

Knowing what blockchain is and how it can contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges is one...

Big Data Can Help Control Population

Accelerate AIposted by Naveen Joshi May 17, 2018

Now, if we told you that you need not worry about the increasing population, would you be surprised? Well,...

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Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Preparation with ‘funModeling’

funModeling quick-start This package contains a set of functions related to exploratory data analysis, data preparation, and model performance....

Rposted by Pablo Casas May 23, 2018

funModeling quick-start This package contains a set of functions related to exploratory data analysis, data preparation, and model performance....

How Fast Can You Parse JSON?

Toolsposted by Daniel Lemire May 17, 2018

JSON has become the de facto standard exchange format on the web today. A JSON document is quite simple...

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Rposted by Thomas Lumley May 16, 2018

I’m working on an R package for mixed models under complex sampling. It’s here. At the moment, it only tries...

ODSC East 2018 – Open Source Data Science Project Award Winner : the Chainer Framework

Drew Conway, PhD, Founder and CEO at Alluvium, Cofounder of DataKind discusses best practices for building strong data science teams at ODSC East 2018

What I Enjoyed Most at ODSC East 2018

A Twitter Review of ODSC East 2018

An Open Data Science Live Stream For the Ages: ODSC East 2018 Recap

The 4th Annual Data Science Summit

ODSC East 2018: Reflections on the Gathering of the Future of AI

A Closer Look at ODSC Boston’s Keynote Speakers

Announcing The ODSC Grant – Supporting the Startup and Data Science Community

The History of Neural Networks and AI: Part 2

Data Visualization Throughout the Data Science Workflow: Part 1

Demystifying Black-Box Models with SHAP Value Analysis

“I hate math!” – Education and Artificial Intelligence to find a meaning

An Overview of Proxy-label Approaches for Semi-supervised Learning

Least Squares Solutions to Over- or Underdetermined Systems

The Mystical Underpinnings of Facebook’s Anti-Fake News Algorithms

Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Ask America Anything Results: Broad Support for Programs that Benefit Children

Sprint establishes online #IoT Factory, a marketplace where businesses of all sizes can purchase state-of-the-art technology solutions.

Machine learning in the legal world has potential to remedy the access-to-justice problem, but the field suffers from a dearth of data that is impeding progress.

Is data the new oil? #GDPR may be the biggest step thus far towards preventing private monopolies in the digital economy, yet it’s only the beginning.

By providing early diagnosis, #AI could prevent thousands of cancer deaths each year by 2033. UK Prime Minister Theresa May set aside millions in government funding to make this a reality.

The retail industry typically loses $500 billion each year to overstocking or understocking, but #AI could fix that. A blockchain-based platform that uses AI to predict fluctuations in product stock is on the rise.

France, China, and the EU have developed comprehensive strategies for #AI, but the US has yet to make the jump. AI has surged in the US private sector, but lack of public investment ignites worries about falling behind globally.

Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines, a Berkeley startup working to bring the conversational capabilities of #AI closer to those of humans.

New Resume Drop for ODSC East 2018 Career Fair in Boston Now Open!

Artificial Intelligence at the Edge – Jameson Toole – ODSC Meetup

How to Develop a Blockchain Strategy: a Roadmap

Big Data Can Help Control Population

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Business Systems Analyst – DataGX – AVP

Quantextual Machine Learning Research Strategist, Assistant Vice President

Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Preparation with ‘funModeling’

How Fast Can You Parse JSON?

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