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).
Mathematical Olympiads are popular among high school students. However, there is nothing similar for college students, except maybe IMC. Even IMC is not popular. It focuses… Read More »Mathematical Olympiads for Undergrad Students
The list below is a (non-comprehensive) selection of what I believe should be taught first, in data science classes, based on 30 years of business… Read More »The First Things you Should Learn as a Data Scientist – Not what you Think
The list below is a (non-comprehensive) selection of what I believe should be taught first, in data science classes, based on 30 years of business… Read More »The First Things you Should Learn as a Data Scientist – Not what you Think
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
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
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
After all, the term Machine Learning was coined based on the way the human (or animal) brain learns, meaning that somehow, machines could also benefit… Read More »From Machine Learning to Machine Unlearning
This resource is part of a series on specific topics related to data science: regression, clustering, neural networks, deep learning, Hadoop, decision trees, ensembles, correlation,… Read More »19 Interesting Articles About Excel
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 1
All you need to know about machine learning, accessible using our data science search engine, covering hundreds of articles and tutorials: Deep Learning Machine Learning … Read More »Data Science and Machine Learning: Great List of Resources
