Amazon Top 20 Books in Neural Networks
These are the most popular neural networks books on Amazon. Perhaps there is something of interest to you here.
on Nov 30, 2015 in Amazon, Book, Deep Learning, Matthew Mayo, Neural Networks
5 Tribes of Machine Learning – Questions and Answers
Leading researcher Pedro Domingos answers questions on 5 tribes of Machine Learning, Master Algorithm, No Free Lunch Theorem, Unsupervised Learning, Ensemble methods, 360-degree recommender, and more.
on Nov 27, 2015 in Ensemble Methods, Machine Learning, Pedro Domingos, Recommender Systems
Detecting In-App Purchase Fraud with Machine Learning
Hacking applications allow users to make in-app purchases for free. With help from a few big games in the GROW data network we were able to build a model that classifies each purchase as real or fraud, with a very high level of accuracy.
on Nov 25, 2015 in Fraud Detection, Machine Learning, Online Games
Career path explained: Big Data Hadoop DEVELOPER to ARCHITECT
The path to becoming a Big Data and Hadoop Architect is fraught with major challenges and responsibilities, but here is a handy infographic to help you chart out your path.
on Nov 24, 2015 in Big Data, Big Data Architect, Developer, Hadoop, Simplilearn
The hardest parts of data science
The hardest part of data science is not building an accurate model or obtaining good, clean data, but defining feasible problems and coming up with reasonable ways of measuring solutions.
on Nov 24, 2015 in Data Science, Kaggle, Yanir Seroussi
Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 16-22: Dilbert discovers the perfect chart; TensorFlow Disappoints – Google Deep Learning falls shallow
A standard #graph for any occasion! #Dilbert discovers the perfect chart; TensorFlow Disappoints - Google #DeepLearning falls shallow; All the #BigData tools and how to use them; KDnuggets #DataScience #Cartoon Caption Contest.
on Nov 23, 2015 in Cartoon, Deep Learning, Dilbert, James Bond, TensorFlow, Tesla
What is the importance of Dark Data in Big Data world?
Dark data is a subset of big data, but it constitutes the biggest portion of the total volume of big data collected by organizations in a year. We will discuss about what opportunities this holds for an organization.
on Nov 20, 2015 in Big Data, Dark Data
Deep Learning for Visual Question Answering
Here we discuss about the Visual Question Answering problem, and I’ll also present neural network based approaches for same.
on Nov 19, 2015 in Deep Learning, Question answering, Turing Test
7 Steps to Mastering Machine Learning With Python
There are many Python machine learning resources freely available online. Where to begin? How to proceed? Go from zero to Python machine learning hero in 7 steps!
on Nov 19, 2015 in 7 Steps, Anaconda, Caffe, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Matthew Mayo, Python, scikit-learn, Theano
The different data science roles in the industry
Data science roles and responsibilities are diverse and skills required for them vary considerably. Here, we have described the different data science roles along with the skill set, technical knowledge and mindset required to carry it.
on Nov 17, 2015 in Career, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, DataCamp, Infographic, Statistician
Getting started with Python and Apache Flink
Apache Flink built on top of the distributed streaming dataflow architecture, which helps to crunch massive velocity and volume data sets. With version 1.0 it provided python API, learn how to write a simple Flink application in python.
on Nov 13, 2015 in Flink, Python, Realtime Analytics, Streaming Analytics, Will McGinnis
A Statistical View of Deep Learning
A statistical overview of deep learning, with a focus on testing wide-held beliefs, highlighting statistical connections, and the unseen implications of deep learning. The post links to 6 articles covering a number of related topics.
on Nov 13, 2015 in Deep Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks, Statistical Learning
Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks for NLP
Dive into the world of Convolution Neural Networks (CNN), learn how they work, how to apply them for NLP, and how to tune CNN hyperparameters for best performance.
on Nov 11, 2015 in Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, NLP
Fast Big Data: Apache Flink vs Apache Spark for Streaming Data
Real-time stream processing has been gaining momentum in recent past, and major tools which are enabling it are Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Learn with the help of a case study about Data processing, Data Flow, Data management using these tools.
on Nov 10, 2015 in Apache Spark, Big Data, Flink, Streaming Analytics
Data Science of IoT: Sensor fusion and Kalman filters, Part 2
The second part of this tutorial examines use of Kalman filters to determine context for IoT systems, which helps to combine uncertain measurements in a multi-sensor system to accurately and dynamically understand the physical world.
on Nov 9, 2015 in FutureText, IoT, Kalman Filters, Sensors
What No One Tells You About Real-Time Machine Learning
Real-time machine learning has access to a continuous flow of transactional data, but what it really needs in order to be effective is a continuous flow of labeled transactional data, and accurate labeling introduces latency.
on Nov 9, 2015 in Dmitry Petrov, Machine Learning, Real-time
Topological Data Analysis – Open Source Implementations
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is making waves in the analytics community lately, but are there open source options available?
on Nov 6, 2015 in C++, Java, Matthew Mayo, Open Source, Python, R, Topological Data Analysis
5 Best Machine Learning APIs for Data Science
Machine Learning APIs make it easy for developers to develop predictive applications. Here we review 5 important Machine Learning APIs: IBM Watson, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Google Prediction API, Amazon Machine Learning API, and BigML.
on Nov 5, 2015 in Amazon, API, Azure ML, BigML, DeZyre, Google, IBM Watson, Machine Learning
Cartoon: It all started with the iPhone answering my email
New KDnuggets cartoon reacts to recent news that Gmail will use Machine Learning to offer answers to your emails. Here is where it can lead ...
on Nov 5, 2015 in Cartoon, Gmail, iPhone
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets provides easy access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data, with more than 25 billion data points from more than 70 source organizations.
on Nov 4, 2015 in Data Platform, Statistics, Time Series, Time series data
Why Deep Learning Works – Key Insights and Saddle Points
A quality discussion on the theoretical motivations for deep learning, including distributed representation, deep architecture, and the easily escapable saddle point.
on Nov 3, 2015 in Deep Learning, Distributed Representation, Matthew Mayo, Yoshua Bengio
Overview of Python Visualization Tools
An overview and comparison of the leading data visualization packages and tools for Python, including Pandas, Seaborn, ggplot, Bokeh, pygal, and Plotly.
on Nov 3, 2015 in Data Visualization, ggplot2, Pandas, Plotly, Python
How Data Science increased the profitability of the e-commerce industry?
Data Science helps businesses provide a richer understanding of the customers by capturing and integrating the information on customers web behaviour, their life events, what led to the purchase of a product or service, how customers interact with different channels, and more.
on Nov 3, 2015 in Data Science, DeZyre, Ecommerce, Recommendations
6 crazy things Deep Learning and Topological Data Analysis can do with your data
Want to analyze a high dimensional dataset and you are running out of options? Find out how Deep Learning combined with Topological Data Analysis can do exactly that and more.
on Nov 2, 2015 in Clustering, Data Visualization, Deep Learning, Netflix, Topological Data Analysis
5 Warning Signs that Turn Off Data Science Hiring Managers
Here are some warning signs that will prevent managers from hiring you for a Data Science position. If your resume has one or more of them, make an effort to remove the risk factors.
on Nov 2, 2015 in Data Scientist, Hiring, Kaiser Fung
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