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11 Innovative Data Visualizations you Should Learn (in Python, R, Tableau and D3.js)

Analytics Vidhya

Overview A look at 11 mind-blowing and innovative data visualizations in Python, R, Tableau and D3.js These data visualizations span a variety of real-world. The post 11 Innovative Data Visualizations you Should Learn (in Python, R, Tableau and D3.js) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Why Data Visualization Is The Most Important Skill in a Data Analyst Arsenal

KDnuggets

Visually-displayed data is much more accessible, and it’s criticalto promptly identify the weaknesses of an organization, accurately forecasttrading volumes and sale prices, or make the right business choices.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

The casino business is one that is booming quickly. It has not only tripled in size in recent years but sources predict that it is about to rise to new heights in the coming years. While its operation could throw many challenges your way, it presents even more and bigger opportunities. Ever since the digitization of casinos, casino managers are being exposed to a great deal of data.

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Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning: What is the Difference?

KDnuggets

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence continues to be one of the hottest topics. And in order to work effectively with it, you need to understand its constituent parts.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

The casino business is one that is booming quickly. It has not only tripled in size in recent years but sources predict that it is about to rise to new heights in the coming years. While its operation could throw many challenges your way, it presents even more and bigger opportunities. Ever since the digitization of casinos, casino managers are being exposed to a great deal of data.

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How to count Big Data: Probabilistic data structures and algorithms

KDnuggets

Learn how probabilistic data structures and algorithms can be used for cardinality estimation in Big Data streams.

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How to Sell Your Boss on the Need for Data Analytics

KDnuggets

Here are some ways you can make the case to your boss that analytics investments are smart for your company to pursue.

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Building a Facial Recognition Robot in Less Than 2 Weeks

Dataiku

I’m Jacob, a 15-year-old computer science enthusiast who has just reached the end of a two-week internship at Dataiku, where I was tasked with creating a program that can recognize the faces of different people in the office. Here’s how I attempted to turn a Raspberry Pi into the new robo-receptionist for our London office.

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Top Stories, Aug 19-25: Top Handy SQL Features for Data Scientists; Nothing but NumPy: Understanding & Creating Neural Networks with Computational Graphs from Scratch

KDnuggets

Also: Deep Learning for NLP: Creating a Chatbot with Keras!; Understanding Decision Trees for Classification in Python; How to Become More Marketable as a Data Scientist; Is Kaggle Learn a Faster Data Science Education?

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The Journey to Intelligent Automation with RPA & DataRobot

DataRobot

Background on Robotic Process Automation. The term “robotic process automation” ( RPA ) emerged as a marketing term around 2010. RPA focuses on the user interface (UI) levels of applications to automate processes and is highly dependent on both screen scraping and workflow automation. Rather than being dependent on code, as is required for screen scraping, RPA software allows users to establish automation and manage workflows using drag-and-drop features in a visual way that eliminates the requi

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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More VR Misdirection

Perceptual Edge

Since writing the short article that appeared in this blog a week ago titled “ The Incompatible Marriage of Data Visualization and VR ,” I learned indirectly that my skepticism about VR’s role in data visualization was opposed by Erin Pangilinan, the chief editor of a new book about VR titled Creating Augmented & Virtual Realities: Theory & Practice for Next-Generation Computing (O’Reilly Media, 2019).

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Towards Predictive Accuracy: Tuning Hyperparameters and Pipelines

Domino Data Lab

This article provides an excerpt of “Tuning Hyperparameters and Pipelines” from the book, Machine Learning with Python for Everyone by Mark E. Fenner. The excerpt and complementary Domino project evaluates hyperparameters including GridSearch and RandomizedSearch as well as building an automated ML workflow. Introduction. Data scientists, machine learning (ML) researchers, and business stakeholders have a high-stakes investment in the predictive accuracy of models.

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