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/

KDnuggets™ News 19:n48, Dec 18: Build Pipelines with Pandas Using pdpipe; AI, Analytics, ML, DS, Technology Main Developments, Key Trends; Poll on AutoML

Build Pipelines with Pandas Using pdpipe; AI, Analytics, ML, DS, Technology Main Developments, Key Trends; New Poll: Does AutoML work? Ultralearn Data Science; Python Dictionary How-To; Top stories of 2019 and more.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/n48.html

The ravages of concept drift in stream learning applications and how to deal with it

Stream data processing has gained progressive momentum with the arriving of new stream applications and big data scenarios. These streams of data evolve generally over time and may be occasionally affected by a change (concept drift). How to handle this change by using detection and adaptation mechanisms is crucial in many real-world systems.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/ravages-concept-drift-stream-learning-applications.html

How to Convert an RGB Image to Grayscale

This post is about working with a mixture of color and grayscale images and needing to transform them into a uniform format - all grayscale. We'll be working in Python using the Pillow, Numpy, and Matplotlib packages.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/convert-rgb-image-grayscale.html

Automatic Text Summarization in a Nutshell

Marketing scientist Kevin Gray asks Dr. Anna Farzindar of the University of Southern California about Automatic Text Summarization and the various ways it is used.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/automatic-text-summarization-nutshell.html

The 4 fastest ways not to get hired as a data scientist

Ready to try to get hired as a data scientist for the first time? Avoiding these common mistakes won’t guarantee an offer, but not avoiding them is a sure fire way for your application to be tossed into the trash bin.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/4-ways-not-hired-data-scientist.html

Ontotext Platform 3.0 for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Released

Ontotext Platform 3.0 features significant technology improvements to enable simpler and faster graph navigation, including GraphQL interfaces to make it easier for application developers to access knowledge graphs without tedious development of back-end APIs or complex SPARQL.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/ontotext-platform-enterprise-knowledge-graphs.html

Matplotlib Tutorial: Python Plotting

This Matplotlib tutorial takes you through the basics Python data visualization: the anatomy of a plot, pyplot and pylab, and much more

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/matplotlib-tutorial-python

Text Analytics for Beginners using NLTK

Learn How to analyze text using NLTK. Analyze people's sentiments and classify movie reviews.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/text-analytics-beginners-nltk

Understanding Logistic Regression in Python

Learn about Logistic Regression, its basic properties, and build a machine learning model on a real-world application in Python.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/understanding-logistic-regression-python

Survival Analysis in R For Beginners

In this tutorial, you'll learn about the statistical concepts behind survival analysis and you'll implement a real-world application of these methods in R.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/survival-analysis-R

Installing Anaconda on Windows

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can install Anaconda, a powerful package manager, on Microsoft Windows.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/installing-anaconda-windows

30 Challenging Open Source Data Science Projects to Ace in 2020

Overview Check out our pick of the 30 most challenging open-source data science projects you should try in 2020 We cover a broad range ...
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https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/12/30-challenging-open-source-data-science-projects-2020/

5 Ways to Apply Ethics to AI

Here are six more lessons based on real life examples that I think we should all remember as people working in machine learning, whether you’re a researcher, engineer, or a decision-maker.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/5-ways-apply-ethics-ai.html