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An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning Concepts

Conferences Modeling Machine Learning Reinforcement Learningposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC November 6, 2018

Individuals interested in reinforcement learning crowded into a room at ODSC Europe 2018. There, Badoo’s lead data scientist Leonardo De Marchi hosted a four-hour workshop to guide attendees through the first steps. What is reinforcement learning? Reinforcement learning is one machine learning approach. Most people know of supervised and unsupervised learning.... Read more

How Data Scientists Can Enable Small Businesses to Utilize Their Data

Accelerate AI Conferencesposted by Paxtyn Merten October 4, 2018

There were 6 million businesses in the United States in 2016. Industry giants like Walmart and Amazon have hundreds of thousands or millions of employees on their own. Still, only 0.3 percent of U.S. companies have more than 500 employees. The vast majority — 79 percent — have fewer... Read more

Three Challenges for Open Data Science

Conferences Machine Learning odsc east open data scienceposted by Paxtyn Merten September 27, 2018

There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and ‘big data.’ That’s the message Amazon machine learning director Neil Lawrence began his ODSC Europe 2016 lecture with before laying out the three largest challenges for open data science and our data-centered society. As Lawrence sees it, those challenges... Read more

ODSC Europe 2018 – Open Source Data Science Project Award Winner: PyMC3

Conferences ODSC Europe odsc grant ODSC London PyMC3 Pythonposted by Alex Landa, ODSC September 24, 2018

Thanks to the efforts of academia, AI labs, and others, significant progress continues to be made in deep learning, machine learning, and data science in general. However, it’s thanks to the open source projects that many of these advances are quickly accessible to data scientist and developers. As such, we... Read more

Four Eras of Analytics and Data Science

Conferences Modelingposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC September 13, 2018

Professor Thomas Davenport of Babson College, Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management delivered his keynote address on the history of data analytics at Open Data Science Conference East 2017 in Boston, titled Four Eras of Analytics and Data Science. Prof. Davenport’s speech covered the span of... Read more

9 Reasons Why You Should Go To a Career Fair

Accelerate AI Career Insights Conferences Career Fair Jobs ODSC London ODSC Westposted by Alex Landa, ODSC September 10, 2018

Tech companies have been known to ask… interesting…questions during interviews, such as the famous “How many golf balls can you fit in a school bus?” (It’s 660,000, apparently.) Whether it’s at Google, Facebook, Apple, or another company hiring for a data science position, you can bet that the interview(s) will be... Read more

Can You Make Your System Smarter Than a 4th Grader? Using AI to Answer Questions

Conferences Modeling Artificial Intelligence ODSC East 2017posted by Jacquelyn Elias, ODSC September 5, 2018

You may be smarter than a fifth grader, but the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is training its machines to be smarter than a fourth grader in science in the Aristo Project, an artificial intelligence-based question answering system. In his lecture at ODSC East 2017, Joel Grus, a research... Read more

Machine Learning Approaches to Mobile Sensing Data to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer

Conferences Tools Tools & Languages odsc east 2018posted by Alex Amari August 27, 2018

Key Takeaways: Mobile sensing data from IoT devices have created opportunities for data scientists to better understand how we drive. Accelerometry and GPS data, for example, can be used to determine vehicular heading, acceleration, speed, climb, and other aspects of its motion. Machine learning and other data science techniques... Read more

No Need for Deciphering – Learn How to Make Your Own Dataset Instead

Conferences Data Wrangling Modeling odsc east 2018posted by Jacquelyn Elias, ODSC August 24, 2018

Key Takeaways: By creating, capturing, and curating data, one can practice “data creationism” and be creative with data to make your own dataset. While Iris and Titanic are well-known datasets available to experiment with machine learning and data science, challenge yourself to create your own dataset. Anything can be... Read more

Isaac Reyes on the Key Principles of Data Storytelling at ODSC East 2018

Conferences Data Visualization Modeling odsc east 2018posted by Alex Amari August 20, 2018

Where Cole in The Sixth Sense sees dead people, Isaac Reyes sees bad charts. In his role as founder and data scientist at DataSeer Inc., Reyes helps individuals and businesses better understand and convey the messages hidden in data. And in his keynote at ODSC East 2018, Reyes shared... Read more