Sometimes a correlation means absolutely nothing, and is purely accidental (especially when you compute millions of correlations among thousands of variables) or it can be explained… Read More »Spurious correlations: 15 examples
An insightful person once said, “Prediction is like driving your car forward by looking only at the rearview mirror!”. If the road is dead-straight, you… Read More »Prediction – the other dismal science?
#1: What really is BIG Data? Today, we can store and process so much data that we have nearly captured reality; no more sampling biases/… Read More »BIG Data & Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning – Random Insights!
Thousands of companies today declare they plan to invest in big data, sometimes with legitimate reasons. They want to hire scientists, invest in infrastructure, revolutionize… Read More »The misanthrope’s vain struggle with big data
Julia is a high-level dynamic programming language designed to address the requirements of high-performance numerical and scientific computing. It has been discussed as one of… Read More »Julia Programming Language Tutorials
Regardless of your level of experience with data, you need to know about predictive analytics. This type of analytics involves sifting through existing data to… Read More »What is Predictive Analytics?
Are you looking to use your data science & analytics skills to make a difference in political campaigning? Here are 3 Democrat & Republican leaning… Read More »Top Politics-Focused Data Science & Analytics Organizations
By Greta Roberts When beginning a new predictive analytics project, the client often mentions the importance of a “quick win”. It makes sense to think… Read More »The Case Against a Quick Win Approach to Predictive Analytics Projects
Recently found a post by Ali Syed on topic ; “Europeans unconvinced by big data in general“.This study was conducted for the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications… Read More »Big Data Realization: We are in transition phase
UPDATE: Mar 20, 2016 – Added my new follow-up course on Deep Learning, which covers ways to speed up and improve vanilla backpropagation: momentum and… Read More »Step-by-step video courses for Deep Learning and Machine Learning
