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Research

Tides of Information Flow: Visualizing Our Digitally-Mediated Reality

Blog Research Data 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

Our research in 2016: personal scientific highlights

Blog Research Researchposted by Gael Varoquaux July 15, 2017

Year 2016 has been productive for science in my team. Here are some personal highlights: bridging artificial intelligence tools to human cognition, markers of neuropsychiatric conditions from brain activity at rest, algorithmic speedups for matrix factorization on huge datasets… Artificial-intelligence convolutional networks map well the human visual... Read more

The 9 Deep Learning Papers You Need To Know About (Understanding CNNs Part 3)

Blog Deep Learning Research Research Convolutional Neural Networks|Neural Networksposted by Adit Deshpande July 13, 2017

Introduction Link to Part 1 Link to Part 2 In this post, we’ll go into summarizing a lot of the new and important developments in the field of computer vision and convolutional neural networks. We’ll look at some of the most important papers that have been... Read more

Learning in Brains and Machines (1): Temporal Differences

Blog Deep Learning Researchposted by Shakir Mohamed June 22, 2017

We all make mistakes, and as is often said, only then can we learn. Our mistakes allow us to gain insight, and the ability to make better judgements and fewer mistakes in future. In their influential paper, the neuroscientists Robert Rescorla and Allan Wagner put this more succinctly, ‘organisms... Read more

What Is Data Science, and What Does a Data Scientist Do?

Blog Modeling Researchposted by Alex Castrounis June 22, 2017

Introduction What profession did Harvard call the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century? That’s right… the data scientist. Ah yes, the ever mysterious data scientist. So what exactly is the data scientist’s secret sauce, and what does this “sexy” person actually do at work every day?... Read more

Song Lyrics Across the United States

Blog Data Visualization Research Researchposted by Julia Silge June 20, 2017

The inspiration for this post is a joint venture by both me and my husband, and its genesis lies more than 15 years in our past. One of the recurring conversations we have in our relationship (all long-term relationships have these, right?!) is about song lyrics... Read more

Analyzing The Papers Behind Facebook’s Computer Vision Approach

Blog Research Tech Updates Computer Visionposted by Adit Deshpande June 14, 2017

Introduction You know that company called Facebook? Yeah, the one that has 1.6 billion people hooked on their website. Take all of the happy birthday posts, embarrassing pictures of you as a little kid, that one family relative that likes every single one of your statuses,... Read more

NYC Pre-K Explorer

Data Visualization Modeling Researchposted by NYC Data Science Academy April 26, 2017

Shiny Project contributed by Amy Tzu-Yu Chen – Data Science Student in the NYC Data Science Academy Bootcamp Motivation In 2013, Mayor De Blasio campaigned on a promise of universal pre-kindergarten. The program makes access to free pre-kindergarten education available to all NYC families, regardless of child’s abilities and... Read more

Anonymization and the Future of Data Science

Career Insights Researchposted by Steve Touw April 18, 2017

Managing data privacy is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge for massive corporations littered with data silos. New data regulations–from the EU to the US to China— illustrate that this challenge is really just beginning. This trend underscores the importance of anonymization – one of the most... Read more

Data Science from Cyberspace #2

Blog Research Technologyposted by Alex Perrier May 2, 2016

Every week we bring you a selection of the best data science articles we find in Cyberspace. If you want to dig deeper into these Data Science and Machine Learning topics do not miss the next Open Data Science conference, Boston, May 20-22. With over a... Read more