Black Hat Data Science
Black hat data science consists of techniques designed to fool existing algorithms (Google search, Amazon rankings, and so on), compromising or tampering with the metrics… Read More »Black Hat Data Science
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Are You Ready To Become A Chief Data Scientist?
You know who you are. A high-calibre machine learning magician, a well-versed wrangler of data… but you want a bit more from your role. That… Read More »Are You Ready To Become A Chief Data Scientist?
The Role of Predictive Analytics in Medical Diagnosis
Predictive analytics uses current and historical data in order to determine the probability of a particular outcome. This is a particularly powerful approach when it… Read More »The Role of Predictive Analytics in Medical Diagnosis
Top 20 R Libraries for Data Science in 2018 [Infographic]
R is a well-known and increasingly popular tool in the Data Science field. It is a programming language and a software environment primarily designed for… Read More »Top 20 R Libraries for Data Science in 2018 [Infographic]
Summarize and explore the data using SmartEDA
Created an R package for exploratory data analysis. Package name is SmartEDA now available on CRAN. This package includes multiple custom functions to perform initial exploratory… Read More »Summarize and explore the data using SmartEDA
A Wetware Approach to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Summary: Researchers in Synthetic Neuro Biology are proposing to solve the AGI problem by building a brain in the laboratory. This is not science fiction. … Read More »A Wetware Approach to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
From Petabytes to Nanobits, with Application to Blockchain
It is hard to imagine that some data element could contain less information than a bit (a digit equal to either 0 or 1.) Yet… Read More »From Petabytes to Nanobits, with Application to Blockchain
A Database Perspective on Data Security
In this column, we would like to elaborate on the concept of data security. Although security is often related to privacy, they are not synonyms.… Read More »A Database Perspective on Data Security
To SQL or not To SQL: that’s the question!
To SQL or not To SQL: that’s the question! Lemahieu W., vanden Broucke S., Baesens B. This article is based upon our upcoming book Principles… Read More »To SQL or not To SQL: that’s the question!
Why Logistic Regression should be the last thing you learn when becoming a Data Scientist
I recently read a very popular article entitled 5 Reasons “Logistic Regression” should be the first thing you learn when becoming a Data Scientist. Here I… Read More »Why Logistic Regression should be the last thing you learn when becoming a Data Scientist