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February 23 · Issue #3 · View online
A weekly digest of all the best Data Science related news and blog posts.
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Welcome to the 3rd issue of the Best of Data Science Weekly! I’m excited to share links that were of interest to me this week . If you have any questions or there’s something you’d like to see in the newsletter please let me know. 🤪😵🙃 Cheers, Luis de Sousa
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A painful transition of a fresh PhD from academia to industry, and from selfish open-source to product-oriented open-source - Yihui Xie
Yihui Xie a software engineer for RStudio speaks about an early career crisis for the first time to the public. He also mentions the huge impact that the book “Principles” by Ray Dalio had on him.
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22 Minutes to 2nd Place in a Kaggle Competition, with Deep Learning & Azure
Adrian Rosebrock was able to achieve a 2nd place in a Kaggle contest in only 22 minutes using the Microsoft’s Data Science Virtual Machine, which comes pre-installed with all the necessary computer vision and deep learning libraries needed. Link to Python code used provided in article.
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JupyterLab is Ready for Users – Jupyter Blog
Beta release of JupyterLab, the next-generation web-based interface for Project Jupyter, is ready for daily usage!
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Learning to program is getting harder
Allen Downey’s take on why learning to program is actually getting harder, and what we can do about it.
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TensorFlow for R & Keynote from rstudio::conf 2018
R interfaces to TensorFlow mentioned at rstudio::conf 2018. rstudio::conf, the conference on all things R and RStudio, took place earlier this month.
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rstudio::conf 2018 - Official Live-stream Day 1
8 hours 26 minutes of goodness.🤓
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rstudio::conf 2018 - Official Live-stream Day 2
8 hours 40 minutes of goodness.🤓🤓
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Deep learning: Technical introduction
All the matrix calculus you need for deep learning has been conveniently packaged into one paper. 😊
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Big Data, Big Dupe - Stephen Few
This week I purchased Stephen Few’s latest book. As the title suggests, it is an exposé on the Big Data marketing hype. I’ll post a review as soon as I’ve received the paperback version.
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Great review of the Big Data, Big Dupe - Stephen Few
Review that sold me on the book.
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Data Science at the Command Line
This repository contains the full text, data, scripts, and custom command-line tools used in the book Data Science at the Command Line.
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Pruning Makes Faster and Smaller Neural Networks
Link to paper “Learning to Prune Filters in Convolutional Neural Networks” is available in video description.
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This AI Sings
Link to paper “A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer” is available in video description.
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Microsoft/AutonomousDrivingCookbook
Autonomous Driving Cookbook - Scenarios, tutorials and demos for Autonomous Driving
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How To Create A Machine Learning Framework From Scratch In 491 steps
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Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020
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