Building a Data Democracy
Data democracy has been a hot topic of late. But what does this really mean? Further, what do we actually need to DO to build a culture of data democracy? This i...
Home » You searched for 10
Search Results for: 10
Data Engineer and Business Analyst Might be the Best Data Science Opportunities
Summary: Not everyone wants to invest the time and money to become a data scientist, and if you’re mid-career the barriers are even higher. If you still want to be d...
My Favorite Statistical Procedure? Frequencies!
At a conference I attended a few years ago, a data scientist on a round table discussion replied to a question of what she considered the most important mathematical func...
Temporal Convolutional Nets (TCNs) Take Over from RNNs for NLP Predictions
Summary: Our starting assumption that sequence problems (language, speech, and others) are the natural domain of RNNs is being challenged. Temporal Convolutional Nets (...
How an Artificial Intelligence project is helping to make Brazilian politicians more accountable?
Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of National Congress of Brazil. It has 513 congress people, 219 of them max out their monthly spending that can be reimbursed. One ...
"Kindof" Big Data in R
Ask for feedback from just about any critic of the R statistical package and you’ll hear two consistent responses: 1) R is a difficult language to learn, and 2) R...
Using SQL to Estimate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) without Machine Learning
The Statsbot team estimated LTV 592 times for different clients and business models. Customer lifetime value, or LTV, is the amount of money that a customer will spend ...
SQL: A Supposed English-like Language
SQL is envisioned as an English-like language. Simple SQL statements read like English sentences. SQL writes a statement in an English way with English prepositions unnec...
Extreme Event Forecasting at Uber – with Recurrent Neural Networks
This article is by Nikolay Laptev, Slawek Smyl, and Santhosh Shanmugam. At Uber, event forecasting enables us to future-proof our services based on anticipated user dema...
A Primer On Generative Adversarial Networks
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 m...