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Best Strategies to Hire Data Science and Tech Talent

The game has changed but questions still remain. Welcome to the latest talent acquisition strategies for data science and...

Accelerate AIposted by Ron Emery Oct 17, 2018

The game has changed but questions still remain. Welcome to the latest talent acquisition strategies for data science and...

How City Governments Can Establish an Effective Data Infrastructure

Accelerate AIposted by Paxtyn Merten Oct 8, 2018

If a city government wants to become data-driven, it can’t make its workforce pull the extra weight. That’s why...

Give Unicorns a Break, It’s Time for Data Science Teams

Accelerate AIposted by Daniel Gutierrez Oct 5, 2018

We’ve all heard of the highly sought-after breed of data scientist described as a unicorn. Many companies continue to...

How Data Scientists Can Enable Small Businesses to Utilize Their Data

Accelerate AIposted by Paxtyn Merten Oct 4, 2018

There were 6 million businesses in the United States in 2016. Industry giants like Walmart and Amazon have hundreds...

Where’s Humanity’s Algorithm to Solve Poverty?

Data Science for Good MIT Accelerate AIposted by Brandon Dey Oct 3, 2018

What if I told you a tool exists to make you infinitely more resourceful — MacGyver or Horatio Alger...

A Look at Data Science Research Institutes in Europe

Accelerate AIposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC Oct 1, 2018

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fields of increasingly growing interest by the private sector, yet they’re still led...

Meet Aurora – Finland’s AI Assistant Answer to Siri and Alexa

AI AI|Artificial Intelligence Government Accelerate AIposted by Alex Amari Sep 19, 2018

In December 2017, Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment released its first report outlining the country’s artificial intelligence...

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How to Create Nonlinear Models with Data Projection

Linear models will take you far as a machine learning practitioner — much further than most rookies would expect....

Nonlinear Models Modelingposted by Spencer Norris Oct 17, 2018

Linear models will take you far as a machine learning practitioner — much further than most rookies would expect....

5 Essential Neural Network Algorithms

Modelingposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC Oct 17, 2018

Data scientists use many different algorithms to train neural networks, and there are many variations of each. In this...

Dimensionality Reduction with Principal Component Analysis, and a Mallet

Modelingposted by Spencer Norris Oct 16, 2018

Bigger isn’t always better. High-dimensional data can quickly become untenable based on resource constraints and what you plan to...

The Importance of Processing Data the Right Way

Data Wranglingposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC Oct 16, 2018

There are so many different aspects of training a neural network that affect its performance. Many data scientists spend...

Feature Engineering with Forward and Backward Elimination

Feature Engineering R Modelingposted by Daniel Gutierrez Oct 15, 2018

Sometimes when you fit models to test their predictive accuracy, you find that you’re dealing with too many predictors...

AI-Identified Health Policies, Hate Speech Detection Among September Industry Research

Researchposted by Paxtyn Merten Oct 12, 2018

September has been an impressive month for data science research. Here, we highlight a few innovative and explosive studies...

Mine Like Amazon with Market Basket Analysis

market basket analysis Statistics Modelingposted by Spencer Norris Oct 12, 2018

Pattern mining is an incredibly simple but powerful technique for discovering cooccurrences in large datasets. The most common approach...

Insurance company Guidewell looks to get data for AI

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Arizona and Intel team up on Institute for Automated Mobility to develop driverless vehicle technology

Newsposted by ODSC Team Oct 17, 2018

How Spektacom is powering the game of cricket with Microsoft AI

Newsposted by ODSC Team Oct 17, 2018

Google applies deep learning to metastatic breast cancer detection

Newsposted by ODSC Team Oct 16, 2018

Survey identifies queries and managing space as the most time-consuming PostgreSQL management tasks

Newsposted by ODSC Team Oct 16, 2018

Digital pathology startup Deep Lens raises $3.2 million for AI cloud platform

Newsposted by ODSC Team Oct 16, 2018

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

Conference Spotlight

Learn about the pitfalls of placing blind trust in algorithms from Cathy O’Neil, PhD, bestselling author of ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’.

Learn more about how complex algorithms can enable decisions that violate people’s legal, human, and constitutional rights from Cathy O’Neil, PhD, bestselling author of ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’ from her talk at ODSC East 2018.

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Shared Control For Dynamic Systems Between Humans and Robots

Engineering and computer science researchers at Northwestern University devised a model that forsakes user-only control in favor of an...

Researchposted by Kaylen Sanders, ODSC Sep 14, 2018

Engineering and computer science researchers at Northwestern University devised a model that forsakes user-only control in favor of an...

Classification Models Predict Community-Specific Interest in News Articles With High Accuracy

Researchposted by Kaylen Sanders, ODSC Sep 11, 2018

A research team hailing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Raytheon BBN Technologies used features from article content to create...

LSTM enables researchers to track the learning status of class participants in massive open online courses.

Researchposted by Kaylen Sanders, ODSC Aug 15, 2018

Computer scientists at the Harbin Institute of Technology designed a model that makes accurate learning status predictions about MOOC...

In a world where privacy seems increasingly rare, machine learning may help create email notification systems that disclose information in a context-sensitive manner.

Researchposted by Kaylen Sanders, ODSC Aug 8, 2018

Researchers from Northwestern University and Microsoft Research developed machine learning algorithms that predict a user’s comfort with an email...

Using a generative adversarial network, artificial medical images can be created to help train tumor classification models.

Researchposted by Kaylen Sanders, ODSC Aug 1, 2018

Researchers across NVIDIA, MGH and BWH Center for Clinical Data Science, and the Mayo Clinic devised a method for...

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How Data Scientists Can Enable Small Businesses to Utilize Their Data

There were 6 million businesses in the United States in 2016. Industry giants like Walmart and Amazon have hundreds...

Accelerate AIposted by Paxtyn Merten Oct 4, 2018

There were 6 million businesses in the United States in 2016. Industry giants like Walmart and Amazon have hundreds...

Three Challenges for Open Data Science

Machine Learning odsc east open data science Conferencesposted by Paxtyn Merten Sep 27, 2018

There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and ‘big data.’ That’s the message Amazon machine learning director...

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All the Best Parts of Pandas for Data Science

Pandas has been hailed by many in the data science community as the missing link between Python and analysis,...

Pandas Python Pythonposted by Spencer Norris Oct 15, 2018

Pandas has been hailed by many in the data science community as the missing link between Python and analysis,...

K-Means Clustering Applied to GIS Data

Clustering Machine Learning Toolsposted by Spencer Norris Oct 11, 2018

GIS can be intimidating to data scientists who haven’t tried it before, especially when it comes to analytics. On...

TensorLayer for Developing Complex Deep Learning Systems

Pythonposted by Daniel Gutierrez Oct 4, 2018

This article describes TensorLayer, a modular Python wrapper library for TensorFlow allowing data scientists to streamline the development of...

Best Strategies to Hire Data Science and Tech Talent

How City Governments Can Establish an Effective Data Infrastructure

Give Unicorns a Break, It’s Time for Data Science Teams

How Data Scientists Can Enable Small Businesses to Utilize Their Data

Where’s Humanity’s Algorithm to Solve Poverty?

A Look at Data Science Research Institutes in Europe

Meet Aurora – Finland’s AI Assistant Answer to Siri and Alexa

How to Create Nonlinear Models with Data Projection

5 Essential Neural Network Algorithms

Dimensionality Reduction with Principal Component Analysis, and a Mallet

The Importance of Processing Data the Right Way

Feature Engineering with Forward and Backward Elimination

AI-Identified Health Policies, Hate Speech Detection Among September Industry Research

Mine Like Amazon with Market Basket Analysis

Insurance company Guidewell looks to get data for AI

Arizona and Intel team up on Institute for Automated Mobility to develop driverless vehicle technology

How Spektacom is powering the game of cricket with Microsoft AI

Google applies deep learning to metastatic breast cancer detection

Survey identifies queries and managing space as the most time-consuming PostgreSQL management tasks

Digital pathology startup Deep Lens raises $3.2 million for AI cloud platform

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

Learn about the pitfalls of placing blind trust in algorithms from Cathy O’Neil, PhD, bestselling author of ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’.

Shared Control For Dynamic Systems Between Humans and Robots

Classification Models Predict Community-Specific Interest in News Articles With High Accuracy

LSTM enables researchers to track the learning status of class participants in massive open online courses.

In a world where privacy seems increasingly rare, machine learning may help create email notification systems that disclose information in a context-sensitive manner.

Using a generative adversarial network, artificial medical images can be created to help train tumor classification models.

How Data Scientists Can Enable Small Businesses to Utilize Their Data

Three Challenges for Open Data Science

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All the Best Parts of Pandas for Data Science

K-Means Clustering Applied to GIS Data

TensorLayer for Developing Complex Deep Learning Systems