Author and Publisher at MLtechniques.com. Machine learning scientist, mathematician, book author (Wiley), patent owner, former post-doc at Cambridge University, former VC-funded executive, with 20+ years of corporate experience including CNET, NBC, Visa, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, eBay. Vincent also founded and co-founded a few start-ups, including one with a successful exit (Data Science Central acquired by Tech Target).
The Zipf distribution is used to model situations in which a few observations have a very high value (or impact) and account for a large… Read More »Interesting Application of the Zipf Distribution: Data Purging
Bill is the Editorial Director for Data Science Central, and President and Chief Data Scientist at Data-Magnum, providing predictive analytics and big data infrastructure projects as… Read More »Bill Vorhies Retrospective: Part 5
These problems are for college undergrads after a first course in calculus. They are provided with solutions, and could be used by college professors as… Read More »Two More Math Problems: Continued Fractions, Nested Square Roots, Digits of Pi
Interested question posted on Quora recently. Here is my take on this. Just put the next buzz word on your resume when you graduate, maybe… Read More »Will the job outlook for data scientists severely decline after 2020?
We discuss a new approach for selecting features from a large set of features, in an unsupervised machine learning framework. In supervised learning such as… Read More »Simple Solution to Feature Selection Problems
Bill is the Editorial Director for Data Science Central, and President and Chief Data Scientist at Data-Magnum, providing predictive analytics and big data infrastructure projects as… Read More »Bill Vorhies Retrospective: Part 4
Python continues to take leading positions in solving data science tasks and challenges. Last year we made a blog post overviewing the Python’s libraries that… Read More »Top 20 Python libraries for data science in 2018
If you are on Facebook, you’ve probably seen their ads to attract candidates to data science positions. You’ve probably seen ads featuring many young women… Read More »Most Data Science Job Ads are Targeted to Young People – And How to Get a Job at Facebook
Bill is the Editorial Director for Data Science Central, and President and Chief Data Scientist at Data-Magnum, providing predictive analytics and big data infrastructure projects as… Read More »Bill Vorhies Retrospective: Part 2
Many data scientists have a passion for mathematics, and many modern math problems can be explored using data science. Below is a selection of interesting… Read More »12 Interesting Reads for Math Geeks
