A Non-Technical Reading List for Data Science

The world still cannot be reduced to numbers on a page because human beings are still the ones making all the decisions. So, the best data scientists understand the numbers and the people. Check out these great data science books that will make you a better data scientist without delving into the technical details.

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Data Science Immersive Bootcamp – Hands-on Internship with Job Guarantee!

“I have applied for various data science roles but I always get rejected because of a lack of experience.” This is easily the most ...
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Data Science Curriculum Roadmap

What follows is a set of broad recommendations, and it will inevitably require a lot of adjustments in each implementation. Given that caveat, here are our curriculum recommendations.

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Vega-Lite: A grammar of interactive graphics

Vega and Vega-lite follow in a long line of work that can trace its roots back to Wilkinson’s ‘The Grammar of Graphics.’ Since then VegaLite has come into existence, bringing high-level specification of interactive visualisations to the Vega-Lite world.

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Popular Deep Learning Courses of 2019

With deep learning and AI on the forefront of the latest applications and demands for new business directions, additional education is paramount for current machine learning engineers and data scientists. These courses are famous among peers, and will help you demonstrate tangible proof of your new skills.

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Statistical Thinking for Industrial Problem Solving – a free online course

This online course is available – for free – to anyone interested in building practical skills in using data to solve problems better.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/jmp-statistical-thinking-free-course.html

Create Natural Language Processing-based Apps for iOS in Minutes! (using Apple’s Core ML 3)

Overview Intrigued by Apple’s iOS apps? Learn how to build Natural Language Processing (NLP) iOS apps in this article We’ll be using Apple’s Core ...
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KDnuggets™ News 19:n46, Dec 4: The Future of Data Science Careers; Which Data Visualization Should I Use?

This week: The Future of Careers in Data Science & Analysis; Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations; Open Source Projects by Google, Uber and Facebook for Data Science and AI; Getting Started with Automated Text Summarization; A Non-Technical Reading List for Data Science; and much more!

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PyTorch in 2019 and where in Europe you can learn about PyTorch in 2020

The Reinforce AI Conference is coming to Budapest again. Join us Apr 6-7 for the conference days, and optionally Apr 8 for workshops. Stefan Otte returns as a speaker, while Francois Chollet joins this time as well.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/reinforce-pytorch-budapest.html

The Rise of User-Generated Data Labeling

Let’s say your project is humongous and needs data labeling to be done continuously - while you’re on-the-go, sleeping, or eating. I’m sure you’d appreciate User-generated Data Labeling. I’ve got 6 interesting examples to help you understand this, let’s dive right in!

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KDnuggets Poll: How well do current AutoML solutions work?

Take part in our latest poll, asking readers their opinions on the effectiveness of current automated machine learning solutions.

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Explainability: Cracking open the black box, Part 1

What is Explainability in AI and how can we leverage different techniques to open the black box of AI and peek inside? This practical guide offers a review and critique of the various techniques of interpretability.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/explainability-black-box-part1.html

Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 27 – Dec 03: Data Science Books you should read in 2020

Also: WTF is a Tensor?!?; A Reality Check on #DataScience Hype; Is Data Science dying?; Indeed Fastest-Rising Tech Skills, 2018-2019; Cartoon: #Thanksgiving, Big Data, and Turkey #DataScience…

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Gitgirl Wants to Train 13 Million African Women with DataCamp

How a Nigerian social venture for women integrated world-class education into their curriculum.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/gitgirl-wants-to-train-13-million-african-women-with-datacamp

Image Augmentation for Deep Learning using PyTorch – Feature Engineering for Images

Overview Image augmentation is a super effective concept when we don’t have enough data with us We can use image augmentation for deep learning ...
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Artificial Friend or Virtual Foe

Is AI making more good than harm?

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Enabling the Deep Learning Revolution

Deep learning models are revolutionizing the business and technology world with jaw-dropping performances in one application area after another. Read this post on some of the numerous composite technologies which allow deep learning its complex nonlinearity.

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The Essential Toolbox for Data Cleaning

Increase your confidence to perform data cleaning with a broader perspective of what datasets typically look like, and follow this toolbox of code snipets to make your data cleaning process faster and more efficient.

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Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning

While AI may be the new electricity significant challenges remain to realize AI potential. Here we examine why data scientists and teams can’t rely on software engineering tools and processes for machine learning.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/comet-software-engineering-machine-learning.html

5 Techniques to Prevent Overfitting in Neural Networks

In this article, I will present five techniques to prevent overfitting while training neural networks.

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10 Free Top Notch Machine Learning Courses

Are you interested in studying machine learning over the holidays? This collection of 10 free top notch courses will allow you to do just that, with something for every approach to improving your machine learning skills.

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