KDnuggets™ News 15:n40, Dec 9: 50 useful Machine Learning & Data Science APIs; How Do Neural Nets Learn

• 50 Useful Machine Learning & Prediction APIs
• How do Neural Networks Learn?
• Free Data Science Curriculum
• Spark + Deep Learning: Distributed Deep Neural Network Training with SparkNet
• Sentiment Analysis 101
• Deep Learning Transcends the Bag of Words
• The gift of 3 analytics events at super early bird rates

• Create or machine-learn fuzzy logic rules for use with an on-line inference engine

• Beyond One-Hot: an exploration of categorical variables

• Learning from Hurricanes: Big Data Analytics, Risk, & Data Visualization
• 20 Lessons From Building Machine Learning Systems
• Uber-fication: Lessons from Uber in Economics, Digital, Risk, and Analytics
• OpenText Data Digest Nov 27: Data Mapping Music
• Big Data is Crowdledge, not 3V
• Can Big Data Catch the Bad Guys?

• Top November stories: TensorFlow Disappoints - Google Deep Learning falls shallow; 5 Best Machine Learning APIs for Data Science
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 30 - Dec 6: The Balkanization of #DataScience: will it lead to empire or republics?
• Top stories for Nov 29 - Dec 5: 7 Steps to Mastering ML With Python; Balkanization of Data Science - Empire or Republics?
• Top /r/DataScience Posts, November: Open source Plot.ly, Pokemon (?), Social analysis with R
• Top /r/MachineLearning Posts, November: TensorFlow, Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks, and lolz

• Make Beautiful Interactive Data Visualizations Easily, Dec 15 Webinar
• Predictive Analytics + Hadoop = Business Impact, Dec 15 Webinar
• Business Analytics Webinars: Practical Training, 7 Live Sessions, Dec 10

• TMA Predictive Analytics Data Mining Training, [Orlando, Feb 18-26]

• The gift of 3 analytics events at super early bird rates
• PAW 2016 Predictive Analytics Conferences
• KDD 2016 San Francisco Call For Papers | Workshops | Tutorials | KDD Cup
• 45+ upcoming December - August Meetings in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science

• Corios: Consulting Manager
• Microsoft: Senior Data Scientist
• American Family Insurance: Research & Analytics Director
• Microsoft: Data Solution Architect
• SageAxcess: Lead Data Scientist - User Behavior Analytics
• Roche (Basel): Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Text and Data Mining

• Improve Your Processes With Statistical Models.
• A Future-proof Architecture for Streaming Data Analytics

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