What just happened in the world of AI?

The speed at which AI made advancements and news during 2019 makes it imperative now to step back and place these events into order and perspective. It's important to separate the interest that any one advancement initially attracts, from its actual gravity and its consequential influence on the field. This review unfolds the parallel threads of these AI stories over this year and isolates their significance.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/review-what-happened-ai.html

Plotnine: Python Alternative to ggplot2

Python's plotting libraries such as matplotlib and seaborn does allow the user to create elegant graphics as well, but lack of a standardized syntax for implementing the grammar of graphics compared to the simple, readable and layering approach of ggplot2 in R makes it more difficult to implement in Python.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/python-alternative-ggplot2.html

KDD 2020 Call for Research, Applied Data Science Papers

ACM SIGKDD Invites Industry and Academic Experts to Submit Advancements in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning for 26th Annual Conference in San Diego.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/kdd-2020-call-research-applied-data-science.html

Build Pipelines with Pandas Using pdpipe

We show how to build intuitive and useful pipelines with Pandas DataFrame using a wonderful little library called pdpipe.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/build-pipelines-pandas-pdpipe.html

Dusting Under the Bed: Machine Learners’ Responsibility for the Future of Our Society

The Machine Learning community must shape the world so that AI is built and implemented with a focus on the entire outcome for our society, and not just optimized for accuracy and/or profit.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/machine-learners-responsibility-future-society.html

How To “Ultralearn” Data Science, Part 1

What is "ultralearning" and how can you follow the strategy to become an expert of data science? Start with this first part in a series that will guide you through this self-motivated methodology to help you efficiently master difficult skills.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/ultralearn-data-science-part1.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

An Exhaustive Guide to Detecting and Fighting Neural Fake News using NLP

Overview Neural fake news (fake news generated by AI) can be a huge issue for our society This article discusses different Natural Language Processing ...
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https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/12/detect-fight-neural-fake-news-nlp/

Xavier Amatriain’s Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 2019 Year-end Roundup

It is an annual tradition for Xavier Amatriain to write a year-end retrospective of advances in AI/ML, and this year is no different. Gain an understanding of the important developments of the past year, as well as insights into what expect in 2020.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/xavier-amatriain-machine-learning-ai-year-end-roundup.html

Microsoft Introduces Icebreaker to Address the Famous Ice-Start Challenge in Machine Learning

The new technique allows the deployment of machine learning models that operate with minimum training data.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/microsoft-introduces-icebreaker-ice-start-challenge-machine-learning.html

Top Stories, Dec 9-15: Machine Learning & Data Science Research Main Developments, Key Trends; Build Pipelines with Pandas Using pdpipe

Also: Plotnine: Python Alternative to ggplot2; AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning Technology Main Developments in 2019 and Key Trends for 2020; Moving Predictive Maintenance from Theory to Practice; 10 Free Top Notch Machine Learning Courses; Math for Programmers!

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/top-news-week-1209-1215.html

The Ultimate Guide to Model Retraining

Once you have deployed your machine learning model into production, differences in real-world data will result in model drift. So, retraining and redeploying will likely be required. In other words, deployment should be treated as a continuous process. This guide defines model drift and how to identify it, and includes approaches to enable model training.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/ultimate-guide-model-retraining.html

Industry AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science Predictions for 2020

Predictions for 2020 from a dozen innovative companies in AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Data industry.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/predictions-ai-machine-learning-data-science-industry.html

View the PAW Business Agenda & Benefit from Extended Super Early Bird until Dec 20

The agenda for Predictive Analytics World for Business (Las Vegas, May 31 - Jun 4) has just been released. Super Early Bird Deadline Extended until Dec 20th. Register now!

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/paw-business-agenda-extended-super-early-bird.html

Decoding the Best Machine Learning Papers from NeurIPS 2019

Introduction NeurIPS is THE premier machine learning conference in the world. No other research conference attracts a crowd of 6000+ people in one place ...
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https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/12/neurips-2019-best-papers/

Let’s Build an Intelligent Chatbot

Check out this step by step approach to building an intelligent chatbot in Python.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/build-intelligent-chatbot.html

Pedestrian Detection Using Non Maximum Suppression Algorithm

Read this overview of a complete pipeline for detecting pedestrians on the road.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/pedestrian-detection-non-maximum-suppression-algorithm.html

How To “Ultralearn” Data Science: removing distractions and finding focus, Part 2

This second part in a series about how to "ultralearn" data science will guide you through several techniques to remove those distractions -- because your focus needs more focus.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/ultralearn-data-science-distractions-focus-part2.html

Building an Analytics Career at UChicago

Michael Collela describes how UChicago’s Master of Science in Analytics has helped him define his career path. Michael currently works as a data scientist at dunnhumby.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/analytics-career-uchicago.html

Top 2019 Stories: Top 10 Technology Trends of 2019; How to select rows and columns in Pandas

Also: Your AI skills are worth less than you think; Another 10 Free Must-See Courses for Machine Learning and Data Science.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/top-stories-2019.html

20 Most Popular Machine Learning and Deep Learning Articles on Analytics Vidhya in 2019

Introduction High-quality machine learning and deep learning content – that’s the piece de resistance our community loves. That’s the peg we hang our hat ...
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https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/12/20-popular-machine-learning-articles-analytics-vidhya-2019/