“By tapping the united strength of these and other interlocking fields and capitalizing on what they can teach each other, we seek to answer the… Read More »MIT IQ Initiative Is Taking A Different Approach To AI Research
To understand how skills in actuarial science can be applied to investment banking we need to understand what actuarial science deals with. So what is… Read More »How can actuarial science skills be applied in investment banking?
This article was written by Margarita Shilova. Datafication is a buzzword of the last several years, that is used actively along Big Data industry. Honestly, if you… Read More »The Concept of Datafication; Definition & Examples
This article was written by Jim Frost. In regression analysis, curve fitting is the process of specifying the model that provides the best fit to… Read More »Curve Fitting using Linear and Nonlinear Regression
Some time ago I met a colleague who expressed her disappointment from two data scientists that she hired. These were the first employees with a… Read More »Why is it so hard to train data scientists?
If you are on Facebook, you’ve probably seen their ads to attract candidates to data science positions. You’ve probably seen ads featuring many young women… Read More »Most Data Science Job Ads are Targeted to Young People – And How to Get a Job at Facebook
Summary: There are an increasing number of larger companies that have truly embraced advanced analytics and deploy fairly large numbers of data scientists. Many of… Read More »Cliff Notes for Managing the Data Science Function
There have been a lot of discussions regarding the concept of a ‘Smart City’ for quite some time now. ‘Cities’ are now being considered ‘Future… Read More »Big Data to Pave the Way for Smart Cities
This blog explores a typical image identification task using a convolutional (“Deep Learning”) neural network. For this purpose we will use a simple JavaCNN packageby… Read More »Image identification using a convolutional neural network
Bill is the Editorial Director for Data Science Central, and President and Chief Data Scientist at Data-Magnum, providing predictive analytics and big data infrastructure projects as… Read More »Bill Vorhies Retrospective: Part 2
