Don’t Buy Machine Learning
In many projects, the amount of effort spent on R&D on Machine Learning is usually a small fraction of the total effort, or it’s not even there because we plan it for a future phase after building the application first.
on Mar 28, 2016 in Advice, Industry, Machine Learning
How to combat financial fraud by using big data?
Financial fraud methods are becoming more sophisticated and the techniques to combat such attacks also need to evolve. Big data has brought with it novel fraud detection and prevention techniques such as behavioral analysis and real-time detection to give fraud fighting techniques a new perspective.
on Mar 25, 2016 in Alibaba, Banking, Big Data, Fraud, Fraud Detection, Fraud Prevention
The Evolution of the Data Scientist
We trace the evolution of Data Science from ancient mathematics to statistics and early neural networks, to present successes like AlphaGo and self-driving car, and look into the future.
on Mar 16, 2016 in Automated, Data Scientist, Demis Hassabis, Evolution, Mathematics, Statistics
How to tell a great analyst from a good analyst
Good analyst help businesses to stay in the competition, but great analyst sets the business apart from its competition. Learn more about how to be a great analyst by walking that extra mile.
on Mar 15, 2016 in Analyst, Data Science Skills, Quandl
What Should Data Scientists Know About Psychology?
Due to training in the scientific method, data management, statistics/data analysis, subject matter expertise, and communicating results into substantive knowledge psychology researchers must have a solid understanding of data science and vice-versa.
on Mar 14, 2016 in Data Scientist, Methodology, Psychology
What is the influence of Big Data in Medicine?
The 360-degree customer view is the idea, that companies can get a complete view of customers by aggregating data from the various touch points that a user. And, big data is helping to materialize this idea, which will revolutionize the healthcare.
on Mar 14, 2016 in Big Data, Customer Analytics, Healthcare
The Data Science Puzzle, Explained
The puzzle of data science is examined through the relationship between several key concepts in the data science realm. As we will see, far from being concrete concepts etched in stone, divergent opinions are inevitable; this is but another opinion to consider.
on Mar 10, 2016 in Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Science, Deep Learning, Explained, Machine Learning
Fastest Growing Programming Languages and Computing Frameworks
A new model for ranking programming languages and predicting the growth of user adoption. Includes current language rankings and predictions.
on Mar 7, 2016 in Data Science, Javascript, Programming Languages, SQL, Trends
The Mirage of a Citizen Data Scientist
The term "citizen data scientist" has been irritating me recently. I explain why I think it both a bad term and a bad idea, and what we need instead.
on Mar 1, 2016 in Citizen Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Gartner, Overfitting
Dynamic Data Visualization with PHP and MySQL: Election Spending
Learn how to fetch data from MySQL database using PHP and create dynamic charts with that data, using an interesting example of New Hampshire primary election spending.
on Mar 1, 2016 in Data Visualization, FusionCharts, MySQL, PHP
Data Science and Disability
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence has come to the forefront of technology in the last few years. Learn, how practitioners are taking a more philanthropic outlook on life, supporting people suffering with both physical and mental disabilities.
on Mar 1, 2016 in Data Science, Disability, Healthcare
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