Data Science Platforms: Guides, Tutorials,, and How to Pick the Best One

10 Best Data Science Platforms

Featured Post Platforms Azure frameworksposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC March 28, 2019

A data science platform can change the way you work. It’s more than just a tool, it’s a way to wrangle data and turn every member of your team into a high performing unit, capable of pivoting and scaling without missing a beat. The right one... Read more

Saving Machine Learning Models

Platforms Tools & Languagesposted by Damian Mingle May 7, 2018

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feedfor updates on this topic. title author date Saving Machine Learning Models Damian Mingle 04/30/2018 Let’s take a look at two conventional ways to save models using scikit-learn a pickle string a... Read more

Predicting code bug risk with git metadata

Platforms Python Tools & Languagesposted by Civis Analytics Team May 2, 2018

One of the perks of working at Civis is the quarterly ‘Hack Time’. For one week each quarter, you get to explore an offbeat idea of your choice and then present the results to your colleagues. This past quarter I spent my time exploring some off-label... Read more

LIME Can Make You Better at Machine Learning

Modeling Platforms Predictive Analytics Tools & Languagesposted by George McIntire, ODSC May 1, 2018

LIME is a crucial machine learning tool that can tackle one of the biggest issues in machine learning is the issue of interpretability. You can think of interpretability as explaining how and why a model makes predictions. In this age of the super black box model,... Read more

The History of Big Data Processing in 5 Critical Papers

DataOps Platforms Tools & Languagesposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC April 25, 2018

Read the History of Big Data Processing in These 5 Papers Big data is a multi-faceted area of interest and growth in today’s digital world. While many understand the core concepts of big data, the history is lesser known. Individuals interested in big data processing can... Read more

What’s New on Kaggle

Platforms Tools & Languagesposted by George McIntire, ODSC April 24, 2018

It’s a without a doubt that Kaggle is one of the most important hubs in the data science ecosystem. They’ve been making some news recently with their acquisition by Google and the debut of the new “Learn” platform. The best thing, however, beyond technology, about Kaggle... Read more

Waiting time, load factor, and queueing theory – why you need to cut your systems a bit of slack

Platforms Tools & Languagesposted by Erik Bernhardsson April 23, 2018

I’ve been reading up on operations research lately, including queueing theory. It started out as a way to understand the very complex mortgage process (I work at a mortgage startup) but it’s turned into my little hammer and now I see nails everywhere. One particular relationship that turns... Read more

Sheddable Requests: The Intersection of Hackweeks, Book Clubs, and Site Reliability Engineering

DataOps Platforms Tools Tools & Languagesposted by Civis Analytics Team April 19, 2018

One of the things I love about working at Civis is the opportunity we have for continuous learning. Not long ago I had the opportunity to be involved in a book club which read through Google’s Site Reliability Engineering book. One of the essays in this book addressed various... Read more

When shuffling large arrays, how much time can be attributed to random number generation?

Platforms Tools Tools & Languagesposted by Daniel Lemire April 6, 2018

It is well known that contemporary computers don’t like to randomly access data in an unpredictible manner in memory. However, not all forms of random accesses are equally harmful. To randomly shuffle an array, the textbook algorithm, often attributed to Knuth, is simple enough: void swap(int... Read more

Apache Cassandra and ALLOW FILTERING

Platforms Tools & Languages Apache|Data analysisposted by SmartCat Data Science Team March 30, 2018

Prologue Aspiring Cassandra engineer-apprentice was fiddling with Cassandra cluster trying to fetch the data he needed. For a while, he was receiving strange responses from the server. But after hacking his way through the CQL, he finally received the response he was looking for. He felt so proud…... Read more