Bill Schmarzo, also known as the “Dean of Big Data” is CTO at Hitachi Vantara, and former CTO at Dell EMC. He authored a series of articles on analytic applications, and is on the faculty of TDWI teaching a course on "Thinking Like A Data Scientist". Bill is the author of “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business” and "Big Data MBA: Driving Business…

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Here is our list of featured articles and technical contributions posted since Monday.

Resources

• The Mathematics of Data Science - Understanding the foundations of Deep Learning through Linear Regression…

Not all these contributions were from 2018, but the few selected below were among the most visited in 2018. Some were heavily featured, so it does not mean that they represent the average DSC interest. A bigger list featuring 900+ most popular articles can be found here. I am still working on categorizing them, and may hire an intern to work on this project, using…

You will find here an unusual perspective and opinions about data science. These articles may resonate well with senior data scientists and decision makers who manage the data science budget in their companies, but not so well with junior data scientists (assuming it is possible to be both junior and data scientist.) Professionals in fields such as operations research, physics, engineering, FinTech, econometrics, biostatistics might find this content refreshing, even if they don't call…

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

Resources

• New Similarity Methods for Unsupervised Learning 
• Marketing Analytics through Markov Chains …

The results of this Kaggle survey were published recently. The questions addressed include:

• Introduction
• Survey Methodology
• Survey Participants- Basic Profile
• Educational profile of participants
• Job profile of Particpants
• What do they do at work?
• What tools are used for data analysis
• Do you consider yourself a Data Scientist?
• Coding Exposure
• Programming Language Used
• Data Visualization…

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

New Resources

• Twitter Sentiment Analysis Applied to Customer Loyalty Prediction 
• What is a Generative Adversarial…

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Back in 2017, we posted a problem related to stochastic processes and controlled random walks, offering a $2,000 award for a sound solution, see here for full details. The problem, which had a FinTech flavor, was only solved recently (December 2018) by Victor Zurkowski.

About the problem:

Let's start…

Happy Holidays! Here is our list of featured articles and resources posted since Monday.

Resources

• Text Summarization and Sentiment Analysis: Novel Approach 
• How to Visualize a Decision Tree…

The new advice today for data scientists is not to become a generalist. You can read recent articles on this topic, for instance here.  In this blog, I explain why I believe it should be the opposite. I wrote about this…

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Here is our list of featured articles and technical contributions posted since Monday.

Announcements

• Leverage All Your Data With Cloud Analytics - On-demand Webinar 
• New Jobs for Data Scientists (Intuit, Bay Area)

New Resources…

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This resource is part of a series on specific topics related to data science: regression, clustering, neural networks, deep learning, decision trees, ensembles, correlation, Python, R, Tensorflow, SVM, data reduction, feature selection, experimental design, cross-validation, model fitting, and many more. To keep receiving these articles, sign up on…

This resource is part of a series on specific topics related to data science: regression, clustering, neural networks, deep learning, Hadoop, decision trees, ensembles, correlation, outliers, regression, Python, R, Tensorflow, SVM, data reduction, feature selection, experimental design, time series, cross-validation, model fitting,…