Extreme Event Forecasting at Uber - with Recurrent Neural Networks
At Uber, event forecasting enables us to future-proof our services based on anticipated user demand. The goal is to accurately predict...
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The “Big Think” on Statistical Inference
Remember the ASA statement on p-values from last year? The profession is getting together today and tomorrow (Oct. 11/12, 2017) for a...
Deep Learning: AlphaGo Zero Explained In One Picture
Recently Google DeepMind announced AlphaGo Zero — an extraordinary achievement that has shown how it is possible to train an agent to a...
Predictive Analytics Path to Mainstream Adoption
Hold on to your hats data scientists, you're in for another wild ride. A few months ago, our beloved field of predictive analytics was...
Is data science an academic discipline?
In the recent years academia has been making efforts to adjust to the growing demand for data science and data scientists. These include...
Is your New Year’s Resolution to Improve your CRM Data?
We all set New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, research suggests that 63% of us break them within just one month. However, if there is...
The CFO’s New Year’s Resolution
Virtually Print Receipts for Easier Tax Audits While many individuals will make personal resolutions this December, the New Year is also...
Podcast: Pyramid Analytics Platform (Diwakar Rajagopal)
Today we talk with Pyramid Analytics Director of alliances. We will talk about the importance of identifying the right tools and...
(Mild Humor) Notes by an OCD Data Scientist about Christmas
Christmas is an odd but challenging of time of the year, especially for the nerdiest of us. The number of problems to solve are never...
Data or Algorithms – Which is More Important?
Summary: Which is more important, the data or the algorithms? This chicken and egg question led me to realize that it’s the data, and...
Sample Job Titles and Salaries for Recently filled Data Science Positions in US
Sample list of recent placement: Digital, Marketing & Customer Analytics Professionals Salary Director, Digital...
Passive vs. active data scientists
While the skills required or expected from data scientists can vary based on the organization or domain they work in, being a data...
Anatomy of Chatbots
Natural language conversation is one of the most challenging artificial intelligence problems, which involves language understanding,...
The New Face of Credit Card Fraud
You would think that I am going to talk about new levels of sophistication achieved by cybercriminals. No, here I discuss a different...
Machine Learning – Can We Please Just Agree What This Means
As a profession we do a pretty poor job of agreeing on good naming conventions for really important parts of our professional lives. ...
Podcast: Ciencia de datos en sector salud (Gaby Otero y Enrique Acevedo)
Today we talk with Gaby Otero and Enrique Acevedo, part of the CAD-Health team, a company specializing in data science and advance...
Catching up on Big Data & Healthcare
The health area is characterized by the management of huge data volumes. What if those data are processed and provided to the health...
Ten Ways Big Data Is Revolutionizing Marketing And Sales
This article was written by Louis Columbus. Louis is currently serving as Director, Global Cloud Product Management at Ingram Cloud....
Big data: Millennials on Social Media – digging a little deeper
It can be tempting to lump all the people who’ve spent more of their life with social media as one large group with largely the same...
How can organizations successfully convert big data into real-world decisions?
The word wide web is turning into a colossal heap of data that is being stored at hundreds and thousands of datacenters across the world....
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