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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 Given those two, plus SQL gaining eminence as a database strategy, a decidedly relational picture coalesced throughout the decade. Andrew Ng later described this strategy as the “Virtuous Cycle of AI” – a.k.a.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Random forest with default R tuning parameters (Breiman, 2001). Although it may seem sensible at first, this solution can be wrong if the data suffer from selection bias.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). The certification focuses on managing, budgeting, and determining scope for multiple projects, multiple project teams, and assessing and mitigating interdependent risks to deliver projects successfully. Price: $280.

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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., Their tests are performed using C4.5-generated

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. The probabilistic nature changes the risks and process required. We face problems—crises—regarding risks involved with data and machine learning in production. To wit: data science is a team sport.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

A “data scientist” might build a multistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysis over data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm in Hadoop, or communicate the results of our analyses to other members of the organization in a clear and concise fashion.