Here is our selection of featured articles, technical contributions, and forum questions posted since Monday:

Technical Contributions

• Learn ML Coding Basics in a weekend – a new approach to coding for AI
• A Blast from Python…

Learn about CART in this guest post by Jillur Quddus, a lead technical architect, polyglot software engineer and data scientist with over 10 years of hands-on experience in architecting and engineering distributed, scalable, high-performance, and secure solutions used to combat serious organized crime, cybercrime, and fraud.

Although both linear regression models allow and logistic regression models allow us to predict a categorical outcome, both of these models assume…

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The first book is posted on data science…

This article is about Intuitive explanation of Degrees of Freedom and How Degrees of Freedom affects Sudoku.

A lot of aspiring Data Scientists take courses on statistics and get befuddled with the concept of Degrees of Freedom. Some memorize it by rote as ‘n-1'.

But there is a intuitive reason why it is ‘n-1’.…

Artificial Intelligence and the technology behind it are growing at a furious pace. Marketers have realized its vast potential and are striving to extract the technology’s opportunities in full. There are numerous advancements being made in this regard, and many organizations have taken center stage of the AI world with in depth data analysis and data…

Diving into the many underlying trends throughout the entire 1.5 Billion rows of NYC Taxi data with Pivot Billion…

When building applications that ingest a large amount of customer data sets, what is your preferred method of data transfer? Which APIs do you leverage to acquire and transmit? 

This article was written by Sondos Atwi.

What is Cross-Validation?

In Machine Learning, Cross-validation is a resampling method used for model evaluation to avoid testing a model on the same dataset on which it was trained. This is a common mistake, especially that a separate…

Summary: Not enough labeled training data is a huge barrier to getting at the equally large benefits that could be had from deep learning applications.  Here are five strategies for getting around the data problem including the latest in One Shot Learning.

For at least the last two years we’ve been in an…

I had an interesting discussion with one of my son's friends at a neighborhood gathering over the holidays. He's just reached the halfway point of a Chicago-area Masters in Analytics program and wanted to pick my brain on the state of the discipline.

Of the four major program foci of business, data, computation, and algorithms, he acknowledged…

Understanding customer transactional behaviour pays well for any business. With the tsunami of start ups in recent times and the immense money flow in businesses, customers find lucrative offers from companies for acquisition, retention & referrals strategies. Understanding transactional behaviour of a customer has become even more complex with the invent of new business houses everyday. Although, with the rise of powerful machines, one can…

First days after the celebration of the New Year is the time when looking back we can analyze our actions, promises and draw conclusions whether our predictions and expectations came true. As 2018 came to its end, it is perfect time to analyze it and to set trends for the next year. The amount of data generated every minute…

Guest blog by Igor Bobriakov.

First days after celebration of the New Year is the time when looking back we can analyze our actions, promises and draw conclusions whether our predictions and expectations came true. As 2018 came to its end, it is perfect time to analyze it and to set trends for the next year.…

Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this…

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New home construction plays a significant role in housing economy, while simultaneously impacting other sectors such as timber, furniture and home appliances. New house sales is also an important indicator of country’s overall economic health and direction. In the last 50 years there has been few significant bumps and turning points in this sector that shaped the trajectory of the overall economy.  Here I review the…

Call it a “Forrest Gump moment;” an instance of being in the right place at the right time for no other reason than just plain luck.  A “Forrest Gump moment” is based upon Tom Hanks’ character in the movie “Forrest Gump,” a guy who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time meeting Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon at critical points in American history.

I too have had a Forrest Gump moment in meeting President Reagan, however, my deeper Forrest Gump…

SIP application server (AS) text logs analysis may help in detection and, in some specific situations, prediction of different types of issues within a VoIP network. SIP server text logs contain the information which is difficult to obtain or even cannot be obtained from other sources, such as CDRs or signaling traffic captures.

The following parameters, among others, can help in estimating…

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