NIPS2016 (Neural Information Processing System) is an annual event that attracts the best and the brightest of the field of Machine Learning both from academia as well as industry. I attended this event last week for the very first time and was blown away by the volume and diversity of the presentations. One unusual observation…

Here is our selection of featured articles and resources posted since Monday:

• A Beautiful Probability Theorem 
• Deciphering the Neural Language Model 
• Data Scientist Core Skills -…

Owing to the data deluge and the Cambrian explosion of machine learning techniques over the past decade, one might have expected the transformation of marketing strategy into a predominantly quantitative discipline by now. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet, and the observation that marketing is still influenced by a lot of qualitative inputs can be ascribed to two reasons, in my opinion. The first and principal reason continues to be institutional inertia. Second, there is a…

As part of the research underpinning Developer Economics we actively monitor industry trends and opportunities, looking for new areas of significant developer interest. In our Developer Economics survey, we invested in trends in Data Science and Machine Learning among other areas of emerging tech- the latter probably being  the least hyped emerging tech space with the most developer activity. 

Making sense of…

Summary:  The largest companies utilizing the most data science resources are moving rapidly toward more integrated advanced analytic platforms.  The features they are demanding are evolving to promote speed, simplicity, quality, and manageability.  This has some interesting implications for open source R and Python widely taught in schools but significantly less necessary with these more sophisticated platforms.

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As we approach 2017, we have compiled a list of the most popular data science, machine learning, deep learning and related articles published on DSC in 2016. Many great articles have not been included yet as they are very recent, but I have no doubt that they will make it to the top when we will publish our 2017 selection. Also, click here to check out the best…

I will be using this blog to assemble a number of different concepts that I introduced over many years in previous blogs (indicated in bold); then I will explain where all of this will be going in the future.  I am turning 50 years old in a couple of weeks, and I find that I habitually take inventory of my belongings these days before beginning any lengthy mission or journey.  I recently acquired a fairly expensive device called a CPAP machine.  It resembles a small stereo with…

Every organization collects, stores and retains portions of dark data. It’s the digital equivalent of emotional baggage which hangs around after every user interaction, transaction, and customer engagement.

In fact, not using data effectively is …

Fantastic resource created by Andrea Motosi. I've only included the 5 categories that are the most relevant to our audience, though it has 31 categories total, including a few on distributed systems and Hadoop. Click here to view the 31 categories. You might also want to check our our our internal resources (the first section below).…

We all know that, given two events A and B, the probability of the union A U B is given by the formula P(A U B) = P(A) + P(B) - P( AB) where AB represents the intersection of A and B. Most of us even know that

P(A U B U C) = P(A) + P(B) + P(C) - { P(AB) + P(AC) + P(BC) } + P(ABC)

In particular, if the events are independent, it becomes:

1 - P(A U B U C) = 1 - { P(A) + P(B) +…

Recently, I have been working on the Neural Networks for Machine Learning course offered by Coursera and taught by Geoffrey Hinton. Overall, it is a nice course and provides an introduction to some of the modern topics in deep learning. However, there are instances where the student has to do lots of extra work in order to understand the topics covered in full detail.

One of the assignments in…

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.

Announcements

• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit…

This article was written on Database Friends. It is on Database, visualization and big data news. Blogs are about MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server and other DBMS.

MySQL is one of the most widely used open source relational database management systems in the world. With a total distribution amounting to more than 100 million worldwide, the software has become the first choice of large data management corporations spanning over a wide range of internet…

This article was written by Sunil Ray. Sunil is a Business Analytics and Intelligence professional with deep experience.

Introduction – the difference in mindset

I started my career as a MIS professional and then made my way into Business Intelligence (BI) followed by Business Analytics, Statistical modeling and more recently…

Introduction:

Machine Learning is a vast area of Computer Science that is concerned with designing algorithms which form good models of the world around us (the data coming from the world around us).

Within Machine Learning many tasks are - or can be reformulated as - classification tasks.

In classification tasks we are trying to produce a model which can give the correlation…

The world of business and customer service has changed immensely over the past few years. Whereas once business was largely driven by outbound marketing and advertising, in today’s world you have to consider the customer experience and your customers’ journey as they interact with your brand.

Today, thanks to the advent of…

Here is our new selection of featured articles and resources, posted since Monday. Enjoy the reading! 

• Top programming languages that will be most popular in 2017 
• My Best Data Science, Machine Learning and Related…