We can use Pandas to conduct Bayes Theorem and Scikitlearn to implement the Naive Bayes Algorithm. We take a step by step approach to understand Bayes and implementing the different options in Scikitlearn.
Mode is the only analytics platform with native Python and R Notebooks. Get everyone up and running in minutes by delivering Notebook-powered results right in your browser. Now anyone on your team can re-run R- and Python-powered reports themselves—without ever touching code.
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Rev 2 features interactive sessions, Q&A with industry luminaries, poster sessions for interesting modeling techniques and accomplishments, and stimulating conversations about how to make data science an enterprise-grade capability.
Stop using StandardScaler from Sklearn as a default feature scaling method can get you a boost of 7% in accuracy, even when you hyperparameters are tuned!
Students in the Northwestern master's program in Health Analytics build in-depth data science expertise specifically for healthcare that can provide solutions and improve patient outcomes. Drive impactful healthcare insights
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Only a few weeks left until you have the opportunity to listen and learn from top class industry experts from all over the world at PAW Industry 4.0 in Munich on 6-7 May. Use the code KDNUGGETS for a 15% discount on your Predictive Analytics World ticket.
Once again, the most used methods are Regression, Clustering, Visualization, Decision Trees/Rules, and Random Forests. The greatest relative increases this year are overwhelmingly Deep Learning techniques, while SVD, SVMs and Association Rules show the greatest decline.
The goal of this post is identify a single strategy for pulling data from a DataFrame using the Pandas Python library that is straightforward to interpret and produces reliable results.
In this webinar, Apr 30 @ 1 PM ET, attendees will learn more about how their organizations can add AI to BI, making more predictive decisions along the way.
Data Science Salon NY returns to Viacom HQ in Times Square on June 13. Here are insights from DSS NY top speakers on the future of AI in the media production landscape.
“Don’t pick just random projects to work on and add it to your resume or portfolio. Solve a problem that relates to the companies that you’re interested in.”
RE-WORK returns to San Francisco Jun 20-21 with the Deep Reinforcement Learning Summit, the Applied AI Summit and the AI for Good Summit. KDnuggets subscribers get 20% off Early Bird discounted passes when you register before May 3 with code KDNUGGETS.
We provide a useful set of rules you can follow to make sure you’re applying to the right roles and explain why confusing job descriptions with impossible requirements are the new normal.
Galvanize the power of data science at the leading AI and data festival on the west coast, DATAx San Francisco this May 14-15. Use code 'KD200' before Friday, May 3.
Also: 3 Big Problems with Big Data and How to Solve Them; Data Visualization in Python: Matplotlib vs Seaborn; The Deep Learning Toolset — An Overview; Another 10 Free Must-See Courses for Machine Learning and Data Science
We provide an overview of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), discuss challenges in GANs learning, and examine two promising GANs: the RadialGAN, designed for numbers, and the StyleGAN, which does style transfer for images.
RNNs let us model sequences in neural networks. While there are other ways of modeling sequences, RNNs are particularly useful. RNNs come in two flavors, LSTMs (Hochreiter et al, 1997) and GRUs (Cho et al, 2014)
Five Predictive Analytics World Events in Las Vegas, Jun 16-20: Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industry 4.0, Deep Learning. Regular Pricing Ends This Friday. Register now!
Also: Best Data Visualization Techniques for small and large data; K-Means Clustering: Unsupervised Learning for Recommender Systems; An Introduction on Time Series Forecasting with Simple Neural Networks & LSTM; The Rise of Generative Adversarial Networks
The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) annual conference, “Successful Applications of Analytics: How Analytics Drives Disruption,” returns to Philadelphia May 15-16, and includes analytic professionals from a wide variety of industries for a day and a half of knowledge sharing and networking.
We provide an updated comprehensive and objective survey of online Masters in Analytics and Data Science, including rankings, tuition, and duration of the education program.
Now is your chance to break into AI, even if you don’t have a PhD. If you want a job in AI and Deep Learning, Andrew Ng’s Specialization will help you get there.
To celebrate Earth Day 2019, we explain how Intel is committed to advancing uses of AI that positively impact our world by providing social good organizations with technologies and expertise to accelerate their work.
Word clouds are simple visual summaries of the mostly frequently used words in a text, presenting essentially the same information as a histogram but are somewhat less precise and vastly more eye-catching. Get a quick sense of the themes in the recently released Mueller Report and its 448 pages of legal content.
To learn ALL the skills sets in data science is next to impossible as the scope is way too wide. There’ll always be some skills (technical/non-technical) that data scientists don’t know or haven’t learned as different businesses require different skill sets.
The workshops have been announced for Data Driven Government (formerly known as Predictive Analytics World for Government), Sep 25 in Washington, DC. Use the code KDNUGGETS for a 15% discount on your Deep Learning World ticket.
A comprehensive overview of Generative Adversarial Networks, covering its birth, different architectures including DCGAN, StyleGAN and BigGAN, as well as some real-world examples.
Seaborn and Matplotlib are two of Python's most powerful visualization libraries. Seaborn uses fewer syntax and has stunning default themes and Matplotlib is more easily customizable through accessing the classes.
Intel’s optimized Python packages deliver quick repeatable results compared to standard Python packages. Intel offers optimized Scikit-learn, Numpy, and SciPy to help data scientists get rapid results on their Intel® hardware. Download now.
Introducing Sisense BloX, the tool that allows you to integrate your business platforms inside your dashboards using prebuilt templates. Users stay within the dashboard environment and go from understanding insights to taking action—in one click.
We discuss some of the negatives of using big data, including false equivalences and bias, vulnerability to security breaches, protecting against unauthorized access and the lack of international standards for data privacy regulations.
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is a class of technologies and methods that span from swarm intelligence to multi-agent technologies. It is one of the subsets of AI where simulation has greater importance that point-prediction.
Optimization problems are naturally described in terms of costs - money, time, resources - rather than benefits. In math it's convenient to make all your problems look the same before you work out a solution, so that you can just solve it the one time.
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Just a few weeks left until DATAx San Francisco, May 14 & 15. Find out about a number of our stand out sessions taking place at the biggest data festival on the West Coast. Secure your ticket to DATAx San Francisco on May 14 & 15 now!
Data visualization is used in many areas to model complex events and visualize phenomena that cannot be observed directly, such as weather patterns, medical conditions or mathematical relationships. Here we review basic data visualization tools and techniques.
This article discusses how to use the Named Entity Recognition module in spaCy to identify people, organizations, or locations in text, then deploy a Python API with Flask.
Advance your data-driven career with an online MS in Data Science at Northwestern. You’ll learn from an accomplished faculty of leading industry experts. You can choose from a wide range of specializations and electives to suit your goals.
We outline three different clustering algorithms - k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering and Graph Community Detection - providing an explanation on when to use each, how they work and a worked example.
Breaking down data science with Python, Spark and Optimus. Today: Data Operations for Data Science. Here we’ll learn to set-up Git, Travis CI and DVC for our project.
Also: Which Data Science / Machine Learning methods and algorithms did you use in 2018/2019 for a real-world application?; Why Data Scientists Need To Work In Groups; Advice for New Data Scientists
Deep Learning World 2019, Jun 16-20 in Las Vegas, will cover a good portion of the wide range of deep learning application areas. Regular prices available until Apr 26. Register now!
We introduce explainable AI, why it is needed, and present the Reversed Time Attention Model, Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanation and Layer-wise Relevance Propagation.
The MSc in Digital Marketing & Data Science at EM Lyon is a 18-month program designed to grow a new generation of leading marketing specialists – apply to current session by June 3, 2019.
With Optimus you can clean your data, prepare it, analyze it, create profilers and plots, and perform machine learning and deep learning, all in a distributed fashion, because on the back-end we have Spark, TensorFlow, Sparkling Water and Keras. It’s super easy to use.
TDWI Onsite Education allows you to train at your office so each member of your team learns the same best practices, methodologies, and strategies directly from industry experts. Each workshop includes customized activities that work with your people, projects, processes, and data.
Analyze with Insight Miner delivers value for every business user with machine learning. Learn how it was created from Sisense Data Scientist, Ayelet Arditi.
This article discusses an alternative approach to finding data science jobs that’s also worth considering, although it has some inherent risks: make your own.
If you read this article you will see that the job of data scientist is NOT listed. The rest of this article will explore why it is true that data scientists need to work in groups.
Your chance to win a Bronze Pass to Strata Data London 2019, which offers an unmatched breadth and depth of data knowledge, providing a clear view of the future of data.
Where traditional BI tools often make it easy to build dashboards, Mode makes it easy for you to answer any follow-up questions when you see changes in those dashboards. Choose the level of abstraction you want for a given dataset and quickly get to the story behind the change.
We provide advice for companies in industries still going through a digital transformation on how they can start to understand the problem that Data and Analytics professionals can help solve.
There are many excellent books, articles, YouTube lectures and blogs on AI and topics related to it aimed at data scientists and AI researchers. You may want to, instead, check out this list of AI resources crafted for ordinary folks.
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There is only one Python distro that lets you add new versions of packages, remove unused packages, and rebuild in minutes. Yes, for free. Download ActiveState Python 3.6 build now.
Success is waiting with Drexel’s new online MS in Data Science. Graduate workplace-ready by having experience with some of the industry’s leading technology. Learn more today.
Introducing Europe’s largest data science training programme. Five weeks of intensive, project-based training turning exceptional analytical PhDs and MScs into Data Scientists.
We present a comprehensive introduction to text preprocessing, covering the different techniques including stemming, lemmatization, noise removal, normalization, with examples and explanations into when you should use each of them.
Which Data Science / Machine Learning methods and algorithms did you use in 2018/2019 for a real-world application? Take part in the latest KDnuggets survey and have your say.
Find the topics and learning style that resonate with you and your team! Join us for essential training in analytics, data management, business intelligence, machine learning, and more. Save 20% on TDWI seminars with code KD20.
Also: 7 Qualities Your Big Data Visualization Tools Absolutely Must Have and 10 Tools That Have Them; Getting started with NLP using the PyTorch framework; Predict Age and Gender Using Convolutional Neural Network and OpenCV; Which Face is Real?
The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) annual conference, “Successful Applications of Analytics: How Analytics Drives Disruption,” returns to Philadelphia May 15-16, and includes analytic professionals from a wide variety of industries for a day and a half of knowledge sharing and networking.
In this tutorial I cover a simple trick that will allow you to construct custom loss functions in Keras which can receive arguments other than y_true and y_pred.
This webinar, Apr 18 @ 1 PM ET, will help listeners understand both the opportunities and limits of AI for decision making. It will underscore the importance of applying appropriate governance and controls to analytic models and use cases.
We explain the need for caution when it comes to using AI in real-life situations and outline the importance of asking the right question to deliver the right impact.
Marketing scientist Kevin Gray asks University of Missouri Professor Chris Wikle about Spatio-Temporal Statistics and how it can be used in science and business.
Find out how marketers can utilise AI, data segmentation, digital natives, influencers, apps and the internet to help build better, more personalized customer experience: download our ebook 'DATAx: Guide to AI in Marketing'.
Strata Data Conference is coming to London Apr 29-May 2. Discover what's coming in data and AI. Save 20% on Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes with code KDNU (up to £231 on a Gold pass).
Introducing Sisense Hunch, the new way of handling Big Data sets that uses AQP technology to construct Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) which are trained to learn the relationships between queries and their results in these huge datasets.
A beginners guide to building a recommendation system, with a step-by-step guide on how to create a content-based filtering system to recommend movies for a user to watch.
Age and gender estimation from a single face image are important tasks in intelligent applications. As such, let's build a simple age and gender detection model in this detailed article.
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ODSC East is in Boston Apr 30-May 3, and it's selling out fast! A limited amount of tickets still remain, and 20% off ends Friday! ODSC India 2019 will take place in Bengaluru, Aug 7-10. Tickets are on sale now!
DataScienceGO is the only conference dedicated to career advancement for data science managers, practitioners and beginners. Early Bird tickets are on sale until June 27 - get them now.
We discuss the classes that PyTorch provides for helping with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and how they can be used for related tasks using recurrent layers.
Some people find the path of formal education works well for them, but this may not work for everyone, in every situation. Here are eight ways that you can take a DIY approach to your data science education.
The understanding of the data value for optimization and improvement of gaming makes specialists search for new ways to apply data science and its benefits in the gaming business. Therefore, various specific data science use cases appear. Here is our list of the most efficient and widely applied data science use cases in gaming.
Prepare yourself, wherever you are, with a Master of Professional Studies in Data Analytics – Business Analytics option, offered online through Penn State World Campus. You still have time to apply for fall 2019. Our next application deadline for the master's program is Monday, July 15.
Also: Pedestrian Detection in Aerial Images Using RetinaNet; How to Choose the Right Chart Type; Explaining Random Forest (with Python Implementation); A Beginner's Guide to Linear Regression in Python with Scikit-Learn; The Four Levels of Analytics Maturity
Two Predictive Analytics World events are coming to Europe this fall. Join PAW in London, Oct 16-17, and Berlin, Nov 18-19. Use the code KDNUGGETS for a 15% discount.
Without the right visualization tools, raw data is of little use. Data visualization helps present the data in an interactive visual format. Here are the qualities to look for in a data visualization tool.
Which Face Is Real? was developed based on Generative Adversarial Networks as a web application in which users can select which image they believe is a true person and which was synthetically generated. The person in the synthetically generated photo does not exist.
Here is a list of 10 common mistakes that a senior data scientist — who is ranked in the top 1% on Stackoverflow for python coding and who works with a lot of (junior) data scientists — frequently sees.
Data scientists, industrial planners, and other machine learning experts will meet at PAW in Las Vegas on June 16-20, 2019 to explore the latest trends and technologies in machine & deep learning for the IoT era.
We outline the usefulness of Explainable AI, which allows you to explain the results of a multidimensional model - including having a multimodal decision boundary - to a business user.
It may be April first, but that doesn't mean you will necessarily be fooled by GPT-2's views on the AI arms race. Why not have a read for fun and to see what the language generation model is capable of.
Normalization vs Standardization — Quantitative analysis
Top Data Science and Machine Learning Methods Used in 2018, 2019
The most desired skill in data science
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