According to a KDD poll fewer respondents (by rate) used only R in 2017 than in 2018. At the same time more respondents (by rate) used only Python in 2017 than in 2016.
Remembering Michael
It has been a year since the tragic event of September 2017. We now know what happened, and it is a tremendously sad story of undiagnosed type 1 diabetes.
The economic consequences of MOOCs
tl;dr check out our new paper on the relationship between MOOC completion and economic outcomes!
Things you should know when traveling via the Big Data Engineering hype-train
By Wojciech Pituła, Senior Software Developer
Don’t Peek： Deep Learning without looking … at test data
What is the purpose of a theory ? To explain why something works. Sure. But what good is a theory (i.e VC) that is totally useless in practice ? A good theory makes predictions.
Keras vs. TensorFlow – Which one is better and which one should I learn?
R Packages worth a look
Load Data from ‘MyTarget API’ (rmytarget)Allows work with ‘MyTarget API’ https://…/ and load data by ads, cam …
Big career opportunities in big data
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Rising test scores . . . reported as stagnant test scores
Joseph Delaney points to a post by Kevin Drum pointing to a post by Bob Somerby pointing to a magazine article by Natalie Wexler that reported on the latest NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) test results.
Fewer Headaches (Thanks to Data Science)
Usually when you read about headaches in the context of data science and machine learning, it’s not in a positive context - generally, it involves the painful (so to speak) process of data cleaning that can take up to 80 percent of the time in a data project. But this, friends, is a story of data science and how - in some cases - it can be harnessed to cause fewer headaches - literally. Migraines, to be specific.