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9 ways to Level up your Data Science practice

Data Visualization Data Wrangling Modeling Predictive Analytics Tools Tools & Languages Learning data scienceposted by Domino Data Lab April 24, 2017

We love reading articles with tips and best practices, and we agree with a lot of the advice we see out there (#5 on this list is great!). So, we asked the Domino team for advice to pass on to researchers and scientists searching for ways to get to... Read more

United Airlines and Data Technologies to avoid “Turbulence”

Data Visualization Modeling Research Statistics Data Journalismposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC April 13, 2017

It wasn’t an overbooking problem. United Airlines was trying to move four flight crew members to the next airport. They forced passengers to get off the plane with the consequences we saw on the video from last Sunday, but don’t take our word for it. Let’s talk... Read more

(Over)Simplifying Buenos Aires

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualization|Open Dataposted by Marcelo Rinesi March 31, 2017

This is a very rough sketch of the city of Buenos Aires: As the sketch shows, it’s a big blob of homes (VIVIENDAs), with an office-ridden downtown to the East (OFICINAS) and a handful of satellite areas. The sketch, of course, lies. Here’s a map that’s... Read more

Kaggle FIFA Stats

Blog Data Visualization Statistics Sports Analytics|statisticsposted by Gordon Fleetwood November 12, 2016

The phenomenon of the “yearly sports game release” is a well established tradition in the videogame industry. The biggest is, perhaps, the FIFA franchise, reigning supreme leader in its niche, simulated soccer, for most of its over twenty year history. EA Sports released the latest iteration,... Read more

Pokémon Go Data

Blog Data Visualization Data Wrangling Augmented Reality|data|Data analysis|Lifeposted by Gordon Fleetwood September 12, 2016

Editor’s Note: If you’re anything like me, stubbornly loyal to Pokémon Red, now trying to catch up to the cool kids post Poképocalypse, you’ll find this exploration worth a share. About a month ago Pokémon Go, Niantic’s mobile augmented reality game based on the popular franchise,... Read more

Deutsch Credit Future Telling: part 2

Blog Data Visualization NLP/Text Analytics Predictive Analytics classification|Data Science|Predictive Analyticsposted by Gordon Fleetwood August 22, 2016

To continue on this first path, it’s logical to proceed with hyperparameter tuning on the three algorithms previously mentioned in part 1. Here the Random Forest Classifier (R.F.C) pulls ahead with 77% accuracy while the other two are still around 75%. Where there were three on... Read more

A Decade of Statehood Stability

Blog Data Science for Good Data Visualization Data Science|Data Science for Good|Data Visualizationposted by Gordon Fleetwood July 27, 2016

The Fund for Peace is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing violence worldwide. One of their initiatives is the Fragile States Index (F.S.I), a yearly ranking of the stability of countries around the world. Each ranking is the sum of twelve factors rated on a scale... Read more

ODSC East US Attendees Visualization

Blog Conferences Data Visualizationposted by Gordon Fleetwood May 9, 2016

Everyone – well, almost everyone – likes maps, especially maps with interesting data. The final product of analysis hides the mountain of work that goes into its creation. In this case, all the blood, sweat, and tears comes from those versed in the intricacies of geospatial... Read more

Top 5 Tools and Languages for Data Science

Blog Data Visualization Data Wrangling Modeling Python R Statistics Tools Tools & Languages Data Science|Python|R|SQLposted by Jason O'Rawe, ODSC Data Science Team April 18, 2016

Data science is an interdisciplinary endeavor, and it serves the purpose of extracting insight from varying sources of information. Various communities come together at Data Science Conferences to share their knowledge and promote innovation. It is not surprising, then, that the tools showcased by data scientists... Read more

Data Science on Twitter

Data Visualization Modelingposted by ODSC Team April 15, 2016

By: Jason O’Rawe – ODSC data science team contributor Twitter is an indispensable resource for data scientists as well as for the broader data science community. With the right connections, you can use twitter to learn data science, discover new technologies, computational tools and methodologies, and... Read more