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Featured Resources and Technical Contributions

• Introduction to Programming in Stata 
• Challenge of the Week - Solution from one of the Participants +
• A Complete Tutorial to learn Data Science in R from Scratch 
• Formulation of Adversarial Machine Learning 
• 12 Great Data Science Articles by Bill Vorhies 
• San Francisco Police Department Crime Incidents - Nice Analysis
• Hadoop Yarn explanation and container memory allocations 
• San Francisco Police Department Crime Incidents - Part 2: Geo Analysis
• 7 Tools to extract text from HTML document 
• Jumpstart Your PHP Testing with Codeception 

Featured Articles

• Picking an Analytic Platform 
• Storytelling in Social Media Analytics: Beyond the Bar Chart II 
• Machine Learning is dead – Long live machine learning! 
• TensorFlow: Why Google's AI Engine is a Gamechanger 
• The chatbot revolution 
• The 4 Device Types in the IoT, from a Data Perspective 
• Towards a Data-driven Organization: A Roadmap for Analytics 
• Table 1 and the Characteristics of Study Population 

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News, Events, Books, Training, Forum Questions

• Second Big Data Report from the White House 
• What to try Next when stuck in Machine Learning Problem? 
• Data Normalization for Dummies Using SAS 
• 3D Data Visualisation Survey 
• Question: Analytics on predicting device failures 
• Data says FC Barcelona is still the best team in Spain 
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