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March 9 · Issue #5 · View online
A weekly digest of all the best Data Science related news and blog posts.
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Welcome to the 5th issue of Best of Data Science Weekly! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I’m excited to share links that were of interest to me this week. If you’d like to subscribe or browse any of the previous editions please use the link below: Dig in and enjoy this weeks installment.👷 Have a great weekend and send me any questions or ideas for things you’d like to see in the newsletter.🚀 – Luis de Sousa
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Microsoft and Esri launch Geospatial AI on Azure
Available today, GeoAI Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) on the Azure cloud platform. At the heart of the GeoAI Virtual Machine is ArcGIS Pro. In addition to the comprehensive ML and deep learning samples, a set of geo-spatial AI examples are provided on the VM, to help you get started quickly. The VM also contains a full end-to-end tutorial on land use classification at a pixel level using deep learning and Azure GPU instances.
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ONNX Models to be Runnable Natively on 100s of Millions of Windows Devices | Machine Learning Blog
Microsoft announced the next major update to Windows will include the ability to run Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) models natively with hardware acceleration. ONNX is an open source model representation for interoperability and innovation in the AI ecosystem.
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Using Microsoft AI to Build a Lung-Disease Prediction Model Using Chest X-Ray Images
In this blog post, Azure Machine Learning is used to train, test, and operationalize a model to help detect pneumonia and 13 other thoracic diseases using chest x-ray images! Source code and data provided.
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Choosing Priors: Double-Yolk Bayesian Egg
This blog post discusses a method for improving Bayesian priors, using the BayesGOF R package.
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Compare outlier detection methods with the OutliersO3 package
There are many ways to detect outliers. The OutliersO3 package compares 6 different methods in this blog post.
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Not So Standard Deviations: 55 - Biggest Change to R Since R
Hilary and Roger discuss limiting the number of loaded R packages, more Microsoft R, whether A/B testing is dead, and transcendental meditation.
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Microsoft/ml-server-image-similarity: Image similarity solution with Microsoft Machine Learning Server
Image Similarity with Python implemented on SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Server.
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Where do things live in R? R for Excel Users
A short into to where things live in R compared to Excel. Excel is a very visual medium - you can see and manipulate your objects all the time. You can do the same in R. Promise :)
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Edge AI: Skin Cancer Detection App | AI Show
This full-length tutorial shows how to use Azure Machine Learning services end to end for creating a machine learning model for Skin Cancer Detection and run it on mobile phones.
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Why Should We Trust An AI?
A link to the paper “Why Should I Trust You? - Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier” and its implementation is available in the video description.
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Building Blocks of AI Interpretability
A link to the paper “Building Blocks of Interpretability” is available in the video description.
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Introduction to Azure ML Services [Part 1/4]
This episode of the AI Show is the first in a series talking about the Azure ML Services. The new Azure Machine Learning Services provide an integrated, end-to-end data science experience.
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The Chief Data Officer's Playbook
The new and rapidly expanding role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) is of significant interest and relevance to organisations and data professionals internationally. Written by two practicing CDOs, this new book offers a jargon-free, practical guide to making better decisions based on data.
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.
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Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020
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