“Whether it’s statistical charts, geographic maps, or the snappy graphical statistics you see on your favorite news sites, the art of data graphics or visualization is fast becoming a movement of its own.”

Using examples from art, design, business, statistics, cartography, and online media, this book explores both standard-and not so standard-concepts and ideas about illustrating data.

“Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they’ve wasted their time?”

“Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author’s approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you’ll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact.”

The R Consortium has just announced its latest round of project grants. The link above contains details of each project selected.

Easily deploy models to FPGAs for ultra-low latency with Azure Machine Learning powered by Project Brainwave Images were scored with FPGAs at a rate of 305 000 images/s.

“The Image Similarity with SQL Server solution on the Azure AI Gallery demonstrates how to apply transfer learning, incorporating a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) model (trained on ImageNet) to the problem of finding images that are similar to a target image.”

“Microsoft Machine Learning Server’s operationalization feature enables data scientists to operationalize their R and Python analytics. In this blog, we will see how to operationalize Keras models as web services in R and Python.”

StatCheck the board game where the object is to publish two papers before any of your opponents.

It’s amazing what you can achieve when you get 65 inspired people together. Some thoughts by David Smith the rOpenSci unconference

A great recap of Microsoft at PyCon2018

Recordings of PyCon Cleveland 2018 have been released.

The paper “Gaussian Material Synthesis” and its source code is available here.

The paper “Non-stationary Texture Synthesis by Adversarial Expansion” and its source code is available here.

Dive into the research to see how Microsoft’s Tavian Barnes is speeding up the Barnes-Hut algorithm used by the t-SNE dimensionality reduction technique.