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

Domino Data Lab

but it generally relies on measuring the entropy in the change of predictions given a perturbation of a feature. PDPs for the bicycle count prediction model (Molnar, 2009). Courville, Pascal Vincent, Visualizing Higher-Layer Features of a Deep Network, 2009. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

Working with highly imbalanced data can be problematic in several aspects: Distorted performance metrics — In a highly imbalanced dataset, say a binary dataset with a class ratio of 98:2, an algorithm that always predicts the majority class and completely ignores the minority class will still be 98% correct. References. link] Fisher, R.

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. In order to do this, they first defined what data was the most relevant for the company. The results? 4) Improve Operational Efficiency.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Instead, consider a “full stack” tracing from the point of data collection all the way out through inference. back to the structure of the dataset. Let’s look through some antidotes.

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A Retrospective of 2018’s Articles

Peter James Thomas

This increase was driven in part by the launch of my new Maths & Science section , articles from which claimed no fewer than 6 slots in the 2018 top 10 articles, when measured by hits [1]. Given the advent of the Maths & Science section, there are now seven categories into which I have split articles. CDO perspectives.