Why decision trees are more flexible than linear models, explains Stephen Klosterman
This blog post will examine a hypothetical dataset of website visits and customer conversion, to illustrate how decision trees are a more flexible mathematical...
What does a data science team look like?
Until a couple of years ago, people barely knew the term 'data science' which has now evolved into an extremely popular career field. The...
Why geospatial analysis and GIS matters more than ever today
Due to the hype around big data and artificial intelligence, it can be easy to miss some of the powerful but specific ways data...
Introducing Spleeter, a Tensorflow based python library that extracts voice and sound from any...
On Monday, Deezer, a French online music streaming service, released Spleeter which is a music separation engine. It comes in the form of a...
Netflix open sources Polynote, an IDE-like polyglot notebook with Scala support, Apache Spark integration,...
Last week, Netflix announced the open source launch of Polynote which is a polyglot notebook. It comes with a full scale Scala support, Apache...
Bad Metadata can get you in legal hot water
Metadata isn't just something that concerns business intelligence and IT teams; but lawyers are extremely interested in it as well. Metadata, it turns out,...
Google open sources their differential privacy library to help protect user’s private data
Yesterday, tending on the importance of strong privacy protections in firms, Google open-sourced a differential privacy library which is used by them in their...
Datadog releases DDSketch, a fully-mergeable, relative-error quantile sketching algorithm with formal guarantees
Datadog, the monitoring, and analytics platform released DDSketch (Distributed Distribution Sketch) which is a fully-mergeable, relative-error quantile sketching algorithm with formal guarantees. It was...
How to ace a data science interview
So, you want to be a data scientist. It’s a smart move: it’s a job that’s in high demand, can command a healthy salary,...
Facebook open-sources Hyperparameter autotuning for fastText to automatically find best hyperparameters for your dataset
Two years ago, the team at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab open-sourced fastText, a library that is used for building scalable solutions for text...
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Rookout and AppDynamics team up to help enterprise engineering teams debug...
It's not acknowledged enough that the real headache when it comes to software faults and performance problems isn't so much the problems themselves, but...
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Bringing AI to the B2B world: Catching up with Sidetrade CTO...
Sidetrade is an organization that is on a mission to transform customer engagement in the world of B2B marketing with the help of artificial...
