Top Stories, Dec 16-29: What is a Data Scientist Worth?; Google’s New Explainable AI Service

Also: Let’s Build an Intelligent Chatbot; 10 Best and Free Machine Learning Courses, Online; Build Pipelines with Pandas Using pdpipe; Alternative Cloud Hosted Data Science Environments

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/top-news-week-1216-1229.html

How To “Ultralearn” Data Science: summary, for those in a hurry

For those of you in a hurry and interested in ultralearning (which should be all of you), this recap reviews the approach and summarizes its key elements -- focus, optimization, and deep understanding with experimentation -- geared toward learning Data Science.

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

Towards a Quantitative Measure of Intelligence: Breaking Down One of the Most Important AI Papers of 2019, Part II

AI scientist Francois Chollet proposes a better framework for measuring the intelligence of AI systems.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/towards-quantitative-measure-intelligence-important-ai-paper-2019-2.html

What is the most important question for Data Science (and Digital Transformation)

With so many buzzwords surrounding AI and machine learning, understanding which can bring business value and which are best left in the lab to mature is difficult. While machine learning offers significant power in driving digital transformations, a business must start with the right questions and leave the math to the development teams.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/most-important-question-data-science.html

Top KDnuggets tweets, Dec 18-30: A Gentle Introduction to Math Behind Neural Networks

A Gentle Introduction to #Math Behind #NeuralNetworks; Learn How to Quickly Create UIs in Python; I wanna be a data scientist, but... how!?; I created my own deepfake in two weeks

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/12/top-tweets-dec18-30.html

10 Under-the-Radar Movies that Show the Power of Machine Learning

Introduction I love the sci-fi movie genre. Futuristic scenarios, jaw-dropping visuals, a tight storyline knitting it all together – that’s a recipe for a ...
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https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/01/10-under-the-radar-machine-learning-movies/

Predict Electricity Consumption Using Time Series Analysis

Time series forecasting is a technique for the prediction of events through a sequence of time. In this post, we will be taking a small forecasting problem and try to solve it till the end learning time series forecasting alongside.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/predict-electricity-consumption-time-series-analysis.html

Automated Machine Learning: How do teams work together on an AutoML project?

In this use case, available to the public on GitHub, we’ll see how a data scientist, project manager, and business lead at a retail grocer can leverage automated machine learning and Azure Machine Learning service to reduce product overstock.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/teams-work-together-automl-project.html

Accuracy vs Speed – what Data Scientists can learn from Search

Delivering accurate insights is the core function of any data scientist. Navigating the development road toward this goal can sometimes be tricky, especially when cross-collaboration is required, and these lessons learned from building a search application will help you negotiate the demands between accuracy and speed.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/accuracy-speed-search.html

How HR Is Using Data Science and Analytics to Close the Gender Gap

The gender gap can extend to the lack of equal representation in certain industries or career paths, and there's an extraordinarily long way to go before people will be on equal footing in the labor market. Human resources professionals can rely on data analytics to make progress.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/hr-data-science-analytics-gender-gap.html

Beginner’s Guide to K-Nearest Neighbors in R: from Zero to Hero

This post presents a pipeline of building a KNN model in R with various measurement metrics.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/beginners-guide-nearest-neighbors-r.html

Why Python is One of the Most Preferred Languages for Data Science?

Why do most data scientists love Python? Learn more about how so many well-developed Python packages can help you accomplish your crucial data science tasks.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/python-preferred-languages-data-science.html

Learn Without Limits With DataCamp’s Mobile Coding Courses

Our Mobile Coding Courses provide an immersive learn-by-doing experience—optimized for mobile and fully integrated with desktop!

https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/learn-without-limits

Looking back at BigML’s 2019 in Numbers

2019 has come to an end and it seems to have gone in warp speed with so much happening in the fast-paced world of Machine Learning. 2019 was no exception to the rule among recent years in that it has witnessed a continued rise in interest in Machine Learning from all industries. Furthermore, many more […]

https://blog.bigml.com/2020/01/03/looking-back-at-bigmls-2019-in-numbers/

Cartoon: Teaching Ethics to AI

Ethics in AI has received significant attention recently, and the new KDnuggets cartoon examines the problem of teaching ethics to artificially intelligent entities.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/cartoon-teaching-ethics-ai.html

Your Ultimate Learning Path to Become a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Expert in 2020

Introducing the Learning Path to become a Data Scientist in 2020! Learning paths are easily one of the most popular and in-demand resources we ...
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How to Convert a Picture to Numbers

Reducing images to numbers makes them amenable to computation. Let's take a look at the why and the how using Python and Numpy.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/convert-picture-numbers.html

Top Stories, Dec 30 – Jan 5: How To Ultralearn Data Science; Automated Machine Learning: How do teams work together on an AutoML project?

Also: Predict Electricity Consumption Using Time Series Analysis; What is the most important question for Data Science (and Digital Transformation); Why Python is One of the Most Preferred Languages for Data Science?; What is a Data Scientist Worth?; How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/top-news-week-1230-0105.html

H2O Framework for Machine Learning

This article is an overview of H2O, a scalable and fast open-source platform for machine learning. We will apply it to perform classification tasks.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/h2o-framework-machine-learning.html

Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses

Understand the differences between the two most popular options for storing big data.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/data-lakes-vs-data-warehouses

3 common data science career transitions, and how to make them happen

Breaking into a career in Data Science can depend on where you start. See if you fit into one of these three categories of "newbies," and then find out how to make your professional transition into the field.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/01/3-common-data-science-career-transitions.html