Category Archives: Data Science

Best of 2019: Data is Eating the World

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

[June 30, 2019] Data is eating the world. It has been the most important tech trend since the 1990s. But to paraphrase Robert Solow, “You can see data everywhere but in the Internet statistics.” The most astute and influential observers … Continue reading →

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KDD 2020 Opens Call for Research and Applied Data Science Paper Submissions

Posted on December 9, 2019 by

ACM SIGKDD Invites Industry and Academic Experts to Submit Advancements in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning for 26th Annual Conference in San Diego Read more here

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Translating Between Computer Science and Statistics

Posted on December 1, 2019 by

Terence Parr: “I am a computer scientist retooling as a machine learning droid and have found the nomenclature used by statisticians to be peculiar to say the least, so I thought I’d put this document together. It’s meant as good-natured … Continue reading →

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Logistic Regression in R: A Classification Technique to Predict Credit Card Default

Posted on November 11, 2019 by

Logistic regression is one of the statistical techniques in machine learning used to form prediction models. It is one of the most popular classification algorithms mostly used for binary classification problems (problems with two class values; however, some variants may … Continue reading →

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AI by the numbers: Surveys and forecasts, July 2019

Posted on July 9, 2019 by

What is the state-of-AI in July 2019? Recent surveys, studies, and forecasts illustrate future expectations and current realities regarding the impact of AI on jobs; the conditions, challenges, and benefits of AI adoption; and bits of data related to data … Continue reading →

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A New Data Science Journal from Harvard and MIT

Posted on July 3, 2019 by

  The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and the MIT Press just launched Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR),  a “premier research journal, a leading educational publication, and a popular magazine.” The inaugural issue of HDSR includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars and … Continue reading →

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Data is Eating the World: The Most Important Internet Trend

Posted on July 1, 2019 by

Data is eating the world. It has been the most important tech trend since the 1990s. But to paraphrase Robot Solow, “You can see data everywhere but in the Internet statistics.” The most astute and influential observers of the tech … Continue reading →

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