Update: I tidied up some of these thoughts and on May 5th they were published in a Guardian article here
Useful External Resources
Links to various useful external resources. Will be continually updated
Feather： it's about metadata
** Tue 26 April 2016
Interactive Abstract Pattern Generation Javascript Demo
AI and ML Futures 4： The Future of AI Meeting
Rejoinder： the problem with conda-forge right now
** Thu 21 April 2016
Feather and Apache Arrow： Grokking file formats vs. in-memory representations
** Thu 21 April 2016
Predicting Churn
In mobile and web analytics churn describes the users who stop using a product. In a paid subscription service it’s just the number of users cancelling the subscription. For free products churn is often approximated by the number of users who don’t come back for a certain amount of time.
conda-forge and PyData's CentOS moment
** Wed 20 April 2016
Where will Artificial Intelligence come from?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making progress in great strides, or at least it appears so! Almost no week passes by without some major announcements of new challenges solved by AI technology or new products powered by AI.