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

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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.”. Despite progress in recent years, UNESCO says that more girls than boys remain out of school. Making Women and Girls a Priority.

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

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” 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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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

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Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. In 2009 for example, data breaches dropped to 498 million (from 656 million in 2008) but the number of records exposed increased sharply to 222.5 million (from 35.7

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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox to Avoid Faulty Conclusions

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This is an example of Simpon’s paradox , a statistical phenomenon in which a trend that is present when data is put into groups reverses or disappears when the data is combined. It’s time to introduce a new statistical term. In 2009, researchers suggested that Simpson’s paradox may occur more often than commonly thought.

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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. I learned about Bayesian statistics and conjugate priors. What can one do to remain relevant in such an environment? Read this post to find out. Highlights from my past. Moving forward in my PhD, I got into topic modelling.

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Skills and Tools Every Data Engineer Needs to Tackle Big Data

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What our data engineers like about this course is that it is geared towards the data scientists and covers practical issues for statistical computing. Apache Spark : This unified analytics engine for Big Data processing was created in 2009 as a replacement for MapReduce. This keeps you focused on what the data scientists need from you.

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Fitting Support Vector Machines via Quadratic Programming

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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.