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What data scientists really do
Statistics. I kid, I kid. Hugo Bowne-Anderson, host of the DataFramed podcast, culled some information together that he’s gathered from interviewing data scientists. This is what data scientists really do.
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Why Knowledge Graphs Are Foundational to Artificial Intelligence
Data concerns when interpreting comparisons of gender equality between countries
A journalist pointed me to this research article, “Gender equality and sex differences in personality: evidence from a large, multi-national sample,” by Tim Kaiser (see also news report by Angela Lashbrook here), which states:
Data concerns when interpreting comparisons of gender equality between countries
A journalist pointed me to this research article, “Gender equality and sex differences in personality: evidence from a large, multi-national sample,” by Tim Kaiser, which reports:
Magister Dixit
“…in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” Herbert Simon ( 1971 )
R tip: Use Radix Sort
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tip: use radix sort.
Creating a MapD ODBC Connection in RStudio Server
The scandal isn’t what’s retracted, the scandal is what’s not retracted.
Andrew Han at Retraction Watch reports on a paper, “Structural stigma and all-cause mortality in sexual minority populations,” published in 2014 by Mark Hatzenbuehler, Anna Bellatorre, Yeonjin Lee, Brian Finch, Peter Muennig, and Kevin Fiscella, that claimed:
Managing your expenses with Amazon Lex
This is a guest post by Rob Whelan, Solutions Architect at Relus Cloud.