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Redefining What it Means to be a “First World” or “Third World” Country

BlogModelingStatisticsClustering|data munging|data wrangling|kmeans|PCA|unsupervised learning|world bankposted by George McIntire, ODSC September 17, 2017

We’re all familiar with terms like first, third, and developing the world when it comes to describing countries in relation to the word. “First-world” refers to the countries are richer, healthier, and more educated, while impoverish nations fall under the label of third-world. In addition, we... Read more
Facelyzr Deep Learning Project

Facelyzr Deep Learning Project

BlogDeep LearningDeep Learningposted by Stanko Kuveljic September 16, 2017

Introduction     Deep learning is a phrase that follows us everywhere. Even the non-technical people are aware how artificial intelligence can change our world. I totally agree with Andrew Ng that “AI is the new electricity” and that it can make our world better. Especially... Read more

Data Science for Good

BlogData Science for GoodTech Updatesposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC September 15, 2017

Introduction “Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is just as barbarous as hatred of knowledge. tamed to fit with life, so that one may live what one has learned.” – Nietzsche. Data for Good or for Social Good is referring to the use of Big... Read more

Mind Reading: Using Artificial Neural Nets to Predict Viewed Image Categories From EEG Readings

BlogDeep Learningposted by Jeff Lam September 14, 2017

This was originally posted on the Silicon Valley Data Science blog. How can artificial neural nets help in understanding our brain’s neural net? On the weekend of March 24–26, YCombinator-backed startup DeepGram hosted a deep learning hackathon. The weekend-long event included speakers and judges from Google Brain, NVIDIA, and... Read more

Intro to Data Mining, K-means and Hierarchical Clustering

BlogModelingClustering|Data Mining|kmeansposted by Anshu Gandotra September 14, 2017

Introduction In this article, I will discuss what is data mining and why we need it?  We will learn a type of data mining called clustering and go over two different types of clustering algorithms called K-means and Hierarchical Clustering and how they solve data mining... Read more
Applying Deep Learning to natural language processing

Applying Deep Learning to natural language processing

BlogDeep LearningDeep Learning|Natural Language Processingposted by Naveen Joshi September 11, 2017

Language is the medium that humans use for conversing. Giving machines the ability to learn human language with natural language processing has given rise to several new products and possibilities that were not previously imaginable. Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important technologies... Read more
Tides of Information Flow: Visualizing Our Digitally-Mediated Reality

Tides of Information Flow: Visualizing Our Digitally-Mediated Reality

BlogResearchData Visualizationposted by Joseph Reisinger, Co-founder - Premise September 10, 2017

I consume a lot of news, especially recently. But often I feel like I have a hard time grasping the shape of it. What is different this time? What am I missing? What have I learned? Where did that other thing go? I’m also interested in... Read more
How We Game the Algorithm to Tame the Algorithm

How We Game the Algorithm to Tame the Algorithm

BlogModelingAlgorithmsposted by Pamela Pavliscak September 9, 2017

Algorithms are everywhere. Sometimes we see traces. Once in a while we feel the effects. Mostly, we go about our days vaguely aware of an invisible algorithmic presence. We set out to learn how people live with algorithms now and what it means for the future.... Read more
Seeking Guidance in Choosing and Evaluating R Packages

Seeking Guidance in Choosing and Evaluating R Packages

BlogRRposted by Julia Silge September 9, 2017

At useR!2017 in Brussels last month, I contributed to an organized sessionfocused on navigating the 11,000+ packages on CRAN. My collaborators on this session and I recently put together an overall summary of the session and our goals, and now I’d like to talk more about the specific... Read more

Donor Churn Risk for Non-profits

BlogModelingposted by Israel Kloss September 7, 2017

Non-profits and Donor Churn Individual and corporate contributors are the lifeblood of non-profits, tied to the fabric by supporting the organization’s viability, sustainability, and advancement. Yet, non-profit groups know very little about their donor segments. It’s easy to create a profile for a reliable, faithful supporter... Read more
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