Data Science Writers: Articles & Blogs from the Data Science Community

7 Most Common Big Data Blunders Every Business Should Avoid

Business + Management Guest contributor Big Dataposted by ODSC Community December 26, 2021

As more companies invest in big data and analytics, there is growing confusion around the best data practices and how businesses should leverage their new investment. While it is essential for businesses to understand how to maximize big data’s potential, it’s equally as important to know... Read more

Is Groovy a Viable Language for Data Science Applications? 5 Pros and Cons

Guest contributor Modeling Tools & Languages Groovyposted by April Miller December 1, 2021

Choosing the right programming language can make a remarkable difference in data science applications. While the industry standards are Python and R, some data scientists have branched off to use others they prefer. One such possible alternative is the Groovy programming language. Apache Groovy is an... Read more

6 Most Common Errors When Implementing AI and Machine Learning

Guest contributor Modelingposted by April Miller November 16, 2021

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are steadily rising in popularity, but how can organizations and businesses avoid errors when implementing AI? New technology can be challenging to navigate at first, especially for organizations that aren’t digitally dextrous to begin with. Artificial intelligence (AI) and its partner... Read more

Git vs SVN: What’s the Difference?

Guest contributor Modeling Git SVNposted by Gaurav Belani November 15, 2021

Managing the source code is one of the key factors in any development environment. Version control systems or VCS came into prominence to offer an effective solution to the code management needs while facilitating a version-controlled multi-user environment. With the growing popularity of practices like Infrastructure... Read more

Computer Vision & Data Annotation – An Easy Way of Understanding the Relevance in the Real World

Business + Management Guest contributor Modeling Computer Visionposted by ODSC Community November 11, 2021

Here, you will find a brief explanation of computer vision, some cases we are experiencing in real life, and some of the existent techniques in data annotation supporting the advance of computer vision. I want to highlight upfront that I’m not approaching any computer vision algorithms... Read more

Seven Questions to Ask Before Implementing AI in Your Enterprise

Business + Management Guest contributorposted by ODSC Community November 10, 2021

Artificial intelligence is the talk of the digital town, and probably will be for many more years to come. Due to the surge in AI’s popularity across several industries, many businesses are eagerly investing in this technology. While artificial intelligence is undoubtedly transforming the way we... Read more

SAS Opens its Code Editor Interface to Python Users

Guest contributor Python Tools & Languages SAS SAS Blogsposted by ODSC Community November 9, 2021

Data science teams are multidisciplinary, each with different skills and technologies of choice. Some of them use SAS, others may have analytical assets already built in Python or R. Let’s just say each team is unique. As part of our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery with monthly releases,... Read more

How to Create a Kubernetes Cluster Using Minikube

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modeling Kubernetesposted by ODSC Community October 28, 2021

Using Kubernetes, we can handle a cluster of servers as one big logical server that runs our containers. We declare a desired state for the Kubernetes cluster, and it ensures that the actual state is the same as the desired state at all times, provided that... Read more

Understanding the “Machine Learning Way” to Solve Business Problems through Real-World Scenarios

Business + Management Guest contributor Machine Learning Modelingposted by ODSC Community October 25, 2021

Ironically, one of the foremost barriers preventing the exploitation of machine learning in a business is neither the implementation of the algorithm nor the retrieval of the data (the how): the toughest part is to recognize the right occasion to use it (the why)! We need to... Read more

Handling Exceptions in Python Object-Oriented Programming

Guest contributor Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community September 15, 2021

Systems built with software can be fragile. While the software is highly predictable, the runtime context can provide unexpected inputs and situations. Devices fail, networks are unreliable, mere anarchy is loosed on our application. We need to have a way to work around the spectrum of... Read more