In a previous blog I wrote about 6 potential applications of time series…. To recap, they are the following: Trend analysis Outlier/anomaly detection Examining shocks/unexpected… Read More »Outlier detection with time-series data mining
This article was written by Jean Francois Puget. What programming language should one learn to get a machine learning or data science job? That’s the silver… Read More »The Most Popular Language For Machine Learning Is …
Data democracy has been a hot topic of late. But what does this really mean? Further, what do we actually need to DO to build… Read More »Building a Data Democracy
Summary: Not everyone wants to invest the time and money to become a data scientist, and if you’re mid-career the barriers are even higher. If you… Read More »Data Engineer and Business Analyst Might be the Best Data Science Opportunities
At a conference I attended a few years ago, a data scientist on a round table discussion replied to a question of what she considered… Read More »My Favorite Statistical Procedure? Frequencies!
Summary: Our starting assumption that sequence problems (language, speech, and others) are the natural domain of RNNs is being challenged. Temporal Convolutional Nets (TCNs) which… Read More »Temporal Convolutional Nets (TCNs) Take Over from RNNs for NLP Predictions
Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of National Congress of Brazil. It has 513 congress people, 219 of them max out their monthly spending… Read More »How an Artificial Intelligence project is helping to make Brazilian politicians more accountable?
The following advice is built from my experience working as a data scientist on a variety of projects across different data & engineering teams. Many… Read More »5 Pro-Tips For Data Scientists To Write Good Code
“No one wants to be sold but everyone wants to buy.” Most of us hate being sold. The moment we know someone is selling something,… Read More »Using Neural Networks for sales prospecting
Ask for feedback from just about any critic of the R statistical package and you’ll hear two consistent responses: 1) R is a difficult language to learn,… Read More »"Kindof" Big Data in R
