Why is data so important? Despite being about as prevalent as electricity, it can be difficult to adequately explain how critical data is to the modern world. From busine...
Summary: Contextually intelligent, NLP-based interactive assistants are one of the next big things for AI/ML. The tech is already here from recommendation engines. ...
This post is part of my forthcoming book The Mathematical Foundations of Data Science. Probability is one of the foundations of machine learning (along with linear algebr...
You have probably heard about the concept of massive open online courses (MOOC’s) in the last few years. It is an alternative to formal education and is seen by som...
This article was originally posted here. If you meet 10 people who have been in data science for more than 5 years, chances are that all of them would know of or would h...
Here is a short blog I was asked to make about making a personal Wiki from Wikipedia. It shows the basic steps in text processing so I hope it will be useful for data sci...
Imagine, you are the first data scientist in a company, may be in the industrial company, in one of the old industries, old economy branches. Then, you are an unicorn. Ba...
Summary: AI/ML itself is the next big thing for many fields if you’re on the outside looking in. But if you’re a data scientist it’s possible to see those advan...
There seem to be countless articles projecting the incredible economic and social growth that will be driven by AI. For example, PwC predicts that AI technologies and a...
We live in a time where we are able to monitor everything–servers, containers, fitness levels, power consumption, etc. Making predictions on time series data is oft...