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.

Featured Resources and Technical Contributions

• A Primer On Generative Adversarial…

Guest blog by Keshav Dhandhania and Arash Delijani.

In this article, I’ll talk about Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short. GANs are one of the very few machine learning techniques which has given good performance for generative tasks, or more broadly unsupervised learning. In particular, they have given splendid performance for a variety of…

Guest blog post by Jane Sandwood. Jane Sandwood is a professional freelance writer and editor with over 10 years’ experience. She decided to leave the corporate world and move into freelancing to take advantage of the flexibility and work-life balance it offers.

 According to data collected by Hubspot, nearly 25% of marketers don’t know whether their efforts…

As 2017 ends, Ramon Chen, Chief Product Officer at Reltio, the creator of data-driven applications, has peered into his crystal ball to decipher what 2018 will bring in data management. Find his predictions below. 

2018 will be the year of AI and Machine Learning … again: There have been repeated predictions over the last couple of years touting a potential breakthrough in enterprise use of…

This is a new series, featuring great content from our top contributors. Some of these articles are rather technical in nature, but many are business-oriented and written in simple English. The entire series consists of about 120 articles. We intend to publish a new set every two weeks or so. This is the first edition. To read more articles from a same author, read one of his/her articles and click on his/her profile picture to access the full list. Some of…

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

Resources:

• A Simple Introduction to Complex Stochastic Processes 
• Top Data Science Resources on the Internet Right…

Stochastic processes have many applications, including in finance and physics. It is an interesting model to represent many phenomena. Unfortunately the theory behind it is very difficult, making it accessible to a few 'elite' data scientists, and not popular in business contexts.

One of the most simple examples is a random walk, and indeed easy to understand with no mathematical background. However, time-continuous stochastic processes are always defined and studied using advanced…

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.

Featured Resources and Technical Contributions

• Market Mix Modeling (MMM)…

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

• Understanding Behavioral Economics to Change Behaviors with Big Data
• Data Scientists vs. Data Engineers, Statisticians, and Software…

This is a new series, featuring forum questions (new and old) that are still popular today. These questions were selected manually based on popularity, removing outdated material. The entire series consists of about 160 questions -- most with answers, sometimes several answers. We intend to publish a new set every two weeks or so. The previous edition was posted …

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.

• DSC…

Guest blog post by Blaine Batman. Based on two R packages for neural networks.

In this article, I compare two available R packages for using neural networks to model data: neuralnet and deepnet. Through the comparisons I highlight various challenges in finding good hyperparameter values. I show that some needed hyperparameters differ when using these two packages, even with the same…

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

• 6 Predictions about Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI for 2018 
• Data Monetization? Cue the Chief Data Monetization…

This is part of a new series of articles: once or twice a month, we post previous articles that were very popular when first published. These articles are at least 6 month old but no more than 12 month old. The previous digest in this series was posted here a while back. 

17 Great Articles Posted in the last 12…

The following articles were recently hand-picked, and curated by one of our interns, Amelia. They quickly became popular, and cover dozens of topics of interest to data scientists. This is just a small, random selection among popular curated blogs on DSC. You can check our previous selection of curated articles here.…

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.

• Are you a data scientist looking to apply Apache Spark to build advanced analytics applications at scale? …

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

• Machine Learning – Can We Please Just Agree What This Means 
• Enterprise AI: Learning from the evolution of Robotic Process…

This is part of a new series of articles: once or twice a month, we post previous articles that were very popular when first published. These articles are at least 6 month old but no more than 12 month old. The previous digest in this series was posted here a while back. 

14 Great Blogs Posted in the last 12…

In an email sent to Putin and intercepted by hackers, Donald Trump mentions the result below. However, Trump wrote that he did not have enough space in his message to add the proof, a bit like Fermat when he wrote about his big theorem proved 300 years later. A teacher in New Hope Middle School (Pennsylvania) asked her students to verify if the statement was correct, and found it to be true. In his email, Trump wrote that he planned to leverage this result to find new prime numbers. It was…

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.

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