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Defining data science in 2018

Data Science and Beyond

Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. Like other authors, they argue that causal inference has been neglected by traditional statistics and some scientific disciplines. In a recent article , HernĂ¡n et al.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

Although it’s not perfect, [Note: These are statistical approximations, of course!] We waved our finger in the air to select 64, so some experimentation and optimization are warranted at your end if you feel like it. representations using RNN encoder-decoder for statistical machine translation. Example 11.6 Example 11.9