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It’s True: Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation

Sisense

In fact, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics , “16 million girls will never set foot in a classroom – and women account for two-thirds of the 750 million adults without basic literacy skills.”. Download the full report See the interactive dashboard. Making Women and Girls a Priority.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

Integrity of statistical estimates based on Data. Having spent 18 years working in various parts of the Insurance industry, statistical estimates being part of the standard set of metrics is pretty familiar to me [7]. The thing with statistical estimates is that they are never a single figure but a range. million ± £0.5

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Fitting Support Vector Machines via Quadratic Programming

Domino Data Lab

The intuition here is that a decision boundary that leaves a wider margin between the classes generalises better, which leads us to the key property of support vector machines — they construct a hyperplane in a such a way that the margin of separation between the two classes is maximised (Haykin, 2009). Derivation of a Linear SVM. Fisher, R.

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Adding Common Sense to Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lattice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

On the one hand, basic statistical models (e.g. TF Lattice offers semantic regularizers that can be applied to models of varying complexity, from simple Generalized Additive Models, to flexible fully interacting models called lattices, to deep models that mix in arbitrary TF and Keras layers. monotonicity, diminishing returns).

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 6: The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Management

bridgei2i

You know the markets shake and the accompanying Swine Flu epidemic of 2015 and 2016, the Japanese tsunami and the Thailand floods in 2011 that shook up the high-tech value chain quite a bit, the great financial crisis and the accompanying H1N1 outbreak in 2008-2009, MERS and SARS before that in 2003.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

They also require advanced skills in statistics, experimental design, causal inference, and so on – more than most data science teams will have. Use of influence functions goes back to the 1970s in robust statistics. Jupyter Book: Interactive books running in the cloud ” by Chris Holdgraf (2019-03-27).

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New Edition of “Now You See It”

Perceptual Edge

On April 15, 2021, my book Now You See It (2009) will become available in its second edition with the revised subtitle An Introduction to Visual Data Sensemaking. I wrote Signal in 2015 to complement Now You See It by covering more advanced data sensemaking techniques, including Statistical Process Control.

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