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Are we comparing the countries correctly?

How many times you have compared your homeland to another country when you have watched a foreign language movie/show or when you have...

The Theory of Theory

Since I am sometimes asked to explain phenomena in the absence of data, it becomes necessary to determine what data is required to...

Big Data Isn’t a Thing; Big Data is a State of Mind

“Big Data is dead.” “Big Data is passé.” “We no longer need Big Data; we need Machine Learning now.” As we end 2017 and look forward to...

What Exactly is Artificial Intelligence and Why is it Driving me Crazy

Advanced analytic platform developers, cloud providers, and the popular press are promoting the idea that everything we do in data...

Innovación y tecnología, las claves para la educación del futuro

El Dr. José Escamilla, director de TecLabs, compartió con los medios la necesidad de aprovechar la tecnología en la educación. Tec de...

Podcast: Evolution of Analytics in the Market (Tom Dougherty)

Today we will talk with Tom Dougherty who is currently Director of Marketing Analytics at Life Extension. He told us how he has seen the...

Análisis: La ‘secesión’ de pueblos mexicanos ante la desconfianza en el Estado

José Santos en un punto de revisión a la entrada de Tancítaro, Michoacán, donde los ciudadanos asumieron el control ante el fastidio...

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...

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,...