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).
Actually, this is about two R versions (standard and improved), a Python version, and a Perl version of a new machine learning technique recently published… Read More »Python vs R: 4 Implementations of Same Machine Learning Technique
Recently we read a lot about fake news, alternate facts and journalism lies. Companies like Facebook develop data science algorithms to detect these postings, based among… Read More »The Twilight Zone Between True and False
Guest blog post by Wale Akinfaderin, PhD Candidate in Physics. In the last few months, I have had several people contact me about their enthusiasm for… Read More »The Mathematics of Machine Learning
The format is very similar to a BIG cheat sheet. This cookbook integrates a variety of topics in probability theory and statistics. It is based… Read More »Free Book: Probability and Statistics Cookbook
This article has been updated, and now includes two new sections at the bottom (sections 4 and 5), featuring interesting results, more accurate approximations, and… Read More »Little Proof of the Prime Number Theorem
Or of any celestial body. Here I discuss a solution that can be explained to high school students, to get them interested in mathematics, statistics… Read More »Math Challenge: Computing the Average Rotational Speed of Earth
This picture originally posted here covers the following topics: Basic stack Integrated platforms Visualization Data formats Large & out-of-memory data Hadoop Glue As backend GPU in-database… Read More »R for Big Data in One Picture
In this article, I clarify the various roles of the data scientist, and how data science compares and overlaps with related fields such as machine… Read More »Difference between Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Deep Learning, and Statistics
Today Trump met with leaders of pharmaceutical companies, to discuss “astronomical” drug prices and reduce regulations, so that drug companies can still make hefty profits while… Read More »Will Trump Kill Statistician's Jobs
This is part of a new series of articles: once or twice a month, we post previous articles that were very popular when first published.… Read More »20 Great Blogs Posted in the last 12 Months
