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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Each of the classroom’s library books has a color coded sticker on its spine reflecting its Lexile score—a visual announcement of its official complexity level, and thus of which students might be officially ready to read it. This whole scoring system also changes the story about who librarians and teachers are.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

The problem with this approach is that in highly imbalanced sets it can easily lead to a situation where most of the data has to be discarded, and it has been firmly established that when it comes to machine learning data should not be easily thrown out (Banko and Brill, 2001; Halevy et al., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. References.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Rather than publish an agenda as most technology conferences do, why not let people mingle, discuss, and propose topics and possible sessions? He’s been out of Wolfram for a while and writing exquisite science books including Elements: A Visual Explanation of Every Known Atom in the Universe and Molecules: The Architecture of Everything.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Also, while surveying the literature two key drivers stood out: Risk management is the thin-edge-of-the-wedge ?for My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. Agile Manifesto get published. for DG adoption in the enterprise. a second priority?at

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

What are the projected risks for companies that fall behind for internal training in data science? Recently the World Economic Forum published “ The Future of Jobs Report 2018.” Publishing and peer review. Publishing and peer review are vital to learning. In business terms, why does this matter ?

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. You see these drivers involving risk and cost, but also opportunity. I can point to the year 2001. All righty.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” You can sleep at night as a data scientician and you know you’re not building a random number generator, but the people from product, they don’t want to know just that you can predict who’s going to be at risk. And it works.