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Software commodities are eating interesting data science work

Data Science and Beyond

When I started my PhD in 2009, the plan was to work on sentiment analysis of opinion polls. Back then, it seemed like “real” data science consisted of building and tuning machine learning models – that’s what Kaggle was all about. What can one do to remain relevant in such an environment?

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

Chris Wiggins , Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, presented “Data Science at the New York Times” at Rev. Wiggins also indicated that data science, data engineering, and data analysis are different groups at The New York Times. Data science. Session Summary.

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Explaining black-box models using attribute importance, PDPs, and LIME

Domino Data Lab

PDPs for the bicycle count prediction model (Molnar, 2009). Instead, you should focus on how techniques like PDPs and LIME can be used to gain insights into the model’s inner workings and how you can add those to your data science toolbox. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. References.

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Threads Dev Interview 14: @ben.codes

Data Science 101

It was back in 2009 so I’m sure a lot changed since then but it was really important to understand how to do matrices and vectors operations with OpenGL. I went to college (you gotta have that paper ) and started in the industry with my first job out of college In a video game company as a developer. Is that true?

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Thread Dev Interview 6: @chris.mrbananas.greening

Data Science 101

Wow – this was 2009! An iPhone app with a video from 2009! It was a good use of some classic image processing techniques on quite a constrained device. And it worked surprisingly well. Sudoku Grab for the iPhone – sadly not on the store anymore and a whole bunch of similar things came soon after.

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Smarten Augmented Analytics Receives CERT-IN Certification for Its Products and Services!

Smarten

” The Information Technology Amendment Act of 2009 designated CERT-IN as the national agency to perform functions for cyber security, including the collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents, as well as taking emergency measures to handle incidents and coordinating cyber incident response activities.

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Exploring US Real Estate Values with Python

Domino Data Lab

Models are at the heart of data science. Data exploration is vital to model development and is particularly important at the start of any data science project. the mouse is hovering over December 2009, and it shows a point near the bottom of the last housing crash, with the median housing price in Palo Alto at $1.2