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April 20 · Issue #11 · View online
A weekly digest of all the best Data Science related news and blog posts.
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Welcome to this week’s installment of my curated list of all the best data science related news and blog posts. Come on in, the water’s fine! 🌊🌊🌊 – Luis de Sousa
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Let's turn it up to an eleven
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Analysis of 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips
It’s been 18 months since Todd Schneider last analysed NYC Taxi and Uber trips. He’s updated his post, and the data set through December 2017 has grown to over 1.4 billion taxi trips and another 400 million for-hire vehicle trips, including ride-hailing apps Uber, Lyft, Juno, and Via. His GitHub repository has been updated to process the latest data.
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Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
An excellent essay by Mike Jordan of Berkeley on where we are with human imitative AI, and the challenges to making sensible use of data flows in our lives.
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What's new with R Consortium funded projects in Q1 2018 - R Consortium
See what’s new with R Consortium funded projects in Q1 2018.
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Deploying Deep Learning Models on Kubernetes with GPUs
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Platform for Situated Intelligence: Tools and Framework for Multimodal Interaction Research
Microsoft Research has introduced this very cool “platform for situated intelligence” to help researchers develop systems that “bring together multiple AI technologies and interact with people in the open world”
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Algorithmic Marketing – Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Operations
The author has made the digital download of Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing free!! It’s a comprehensive guide to advanced marketing automation for marketing strategists, data scientists, product managers, and software engineers. It summarises various techniques tested by major technology, advertising, and retail companies, and it glues these methods together with economic theory and machine learning. Some models from the book are available as Jupyter notebooks on Github.
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Azure/doAzureParallel: A R package that allows users to submit parallel workloads in Azure
David Smith did a talk to the Bay Area R User Group on the doAzureParallel R package. Slides here.
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wbuchwalter/tensorflow-k8s-azure
Check out this workshop if you’re Interested in learning how to train TensorFlow model at scale on Kubernetes on Azure.
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4 Experiments Where the AI Outsmarted Its Creators
The paper “The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities” is available here
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When algorithms surprise us
When algorithms surprise us. “Sometimes the programmer will think the algorithm is doing really well, only to look closer and discover it’s solved an entirely different problem from the one the programmer intended.”
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GitHub - coells/100days: 100 days of algorithms
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Data Carpentry · GitHub
Workshops teaching scientists basic skills for retrieving, viewing, managing, and manipulating data in an open and reproducible way.
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Home - RWeekly.org - Blogs to Learn R from the Community
Learn R, R tutorials, R resources, blog posts and the latest updates about the statistical programming R language.
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satRday 2018 Cape Town Videos
Videos have been posted for SatRday 2018 Cape Town!! Links are also in the programme.
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Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide a new open data repository/platform of public data sets. Anyone can add their own data set so they it can be accessed and analyzed on AWS.
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Learn AI-Bootcamp for Emerging AI Developers: Computer Vision API, Custom Vision Service, LUIS [Part 1/2]
In this episode of the AI show, the materials for the LearnAI-Bootcamp for Emerging AI Developers will be shared and explained. Even my namesake is mentioned.
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Azure Developer Tour 2018 | Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocates
Link to the demos from the Azure Developer Tour 2018.
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Thanks for reading. As always, let us know if you have any questions or suggestions, just hit reply, click the thumbs up or thumbs down icons below or send us an email at luisd@syeop.co.za. xoxo
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