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!

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/n46.html

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!

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/rise-user-generated-data-labeling.html

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.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/poll-current-automl-solutions-opinion.html

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…

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/top-tweets-nov27-dec03.html

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 ...
The post Image Augmentation for Deep Learning using PyTorch – Feature Engineering for Images appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/12/image-augmentation-deep-learning-pytorch/

Artificial Friend or Virtual Foe

Is AI making more good than harm?

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/artificial-friend-virtual-foe.html

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.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/enabling-deep-learning-revolution.html

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.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/essential-toolbox-data-cleaning.html

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.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/5-techniques-prevent-overfitting-neural-networks.html

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.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/10-free-top-notch-courses-machine-learning.html

Accuracy Fallacy: The Media’s Coverage of AI Is Bogus

Such as the gross exaggerations Stanford researchers broadcasted about their infamous "AI gaydar" project, there exists a prevalent "accuracy fallacy" in relation to AI from the media. Find out more about how the press constantly misleads the public into believing that machine learning can reliably predict psychosis, heart attacks, sexuality, and much more.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/accuracy-fallacy-media-coverage-ai-bogus.html

BigML Customer Success Highlights – Part 2

In this post, we continue revealing BigML customer success stories that we kicked off with our last post detailing how a number of startups are basing their smart applications and services on the BigML platform. Those companies have profited from adopting BigML rather than taking the costly and risky approach of trying to build their […]

https://blog.bigml.com/2019/12/06/bigml-customer-success-highlights-part-2/

Webinar: Natural Language Processing for Digital Transformation of Unstructured Text

Learn how pharma and healthcare organizations are using the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to transform unstructured text into actionable structured data.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/copyright-webinar-natural-language-processing.html

Basics of Functions and Methods in Scala

Learn about the basics of methods, named arguments, default parameter values, variable arguments in addition to different kinds of functions.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/basic-functions-methods-scala

6 Powerful Feature Engineering Techniques For Time Series Data (using Python)

Overview Feature engineering is a skill every data scientist should know how to perform, especially in the case of time series We’ll discuss 6 ...
The post 6 Powerful Feature Engineering Techniques For Time Series Data (using Python) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/12/6-powerful-feature-engineering-techniques-time-series/

DeepMind Unveils MuZero, a New Agent that Mastered Chess, Shogi, Atari and Go Without Knowing the Rules

The new model showed great improvements over the previous AlphaZero agent.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/deepmind-unveils-muzero-agent-chess-shogi-atari-go.html

Top Stories, Dec 2-8: How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code; 10 Free Top Notch Machine Learning Courses

Also: Data Science Curriculum Roadmap; Enabling the Deep Learning Revolution; The Essential Toolbox for Data Cleaning; A Non-Technical Reading List for Data Science; The Future of Careers in Data Science & Analysis

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/top-news-week-1202-1208.html