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Data Science Minimum: 10 Essential Skills You Need to Know to Start Doing Data Science

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Data Science is such a broad field that includes several subdivisions like data preparation and exploration; data representation and transformation; data visualization and presentation; predictive analytics; machine learning, etc. For beginners, it's only natural to raise the following question: What skills do I need to become a data scientist? This article will discuss 10 essential skills that are necessary for practicing data scientists. These skills could be grouped into 2 categories, namely, technological skills (Math & Statistics, Coding Skills, Data Wrangling & Preprocessing Skills, Data Visualization Skills, Machine Learning Skills,and Real World Project Skills) and soft skills (Communication Skills, Lifelong Learning Skills, Team Player Skills and Ethical Skills). Data science is a field that is ever-evolving, however mastering the foundations of data science will provide you with the necessary background that you need to pursue advance concepts such as deep learning, artificial intelligence, etc.


Why Talent Shortage In AI May End Soon

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Organisations across the world are witnessing talent shortage in AI and are struggling to hire competent employees in this ever-changing landscape. Since every company is striving for a data-driven approach, there is a rise in the integration of technologies such as artificial intelligence, data science, among others, to achieve business objectives. However, the absence of superior talent in the market is impeding the growth of firms. In fact, research tells us that 85% of AI projects fail due to risk, confusion and lack of upskilling in the employees. "It is very challenging to get excellent developers in the space even though AI and Data Science has been the most sought-after skill," says Gaurav Mehrotra, vice president and head of business data solutions at Innoviti Payment Solutions. A recent report published by noted online learning platform Coursera states that out of the 45 million learners on the platform, two million enrolled in AI-based content in 2019.


Spark Project (Prediction Online Shopper Purchase Intention)

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Once a user logs into an online shopping website, knowing whether the person will make a purchase or not holds a massive economical value. A lot of current research is focused on real-time revenue predictors for these shopping websites. In this article, we will start building a revenue predictor for one such website. In this Data Science Machine Learning project, we will create a Real-time prediction of online shoppers' purchasing intention Project using Apache Spark Machine Learning Models using Logistic Regression, one of the predictive models. Databricks lets you start writing Spark ML code instantly so you can focus on your data problems.


On the Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Textbooks Need an Update

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The main goal of this thesis is to point out that the bias-variance tradeoff is not always true (e.g. in neural networks). We advocate for this lack of universality to be acknowledged in textbooks and taught in introductory courses that cover the tradeoff. We first review the history of the bias-variance tradeoff, its prevalence in textbooks, and some of the main claims made about the bias-variance tradeoff. Through extensive experiments and analysis, we show a lack of a bias-variance tradeoff in neural networks when increasing network width. Our findings seem to contradict the claims of the landmark work by Geman et al. (1992). Motivated by this contradiction, we revisit the experimental measurements in Geman et al. (1992). We discuss that there was never strong evidence for a tradeoff in neural networks when varying the number of parameters. We observe a similar phenomenon beyond supervised learning, with a set of deep reinforcement learning experiments. We argue that textbook and lecture revisions are in order to convey this nuanced modern understanding of the bias-variance tradeoff.


Just enough Python

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Cloudera University's Python training course will teach you the key language concepts and programming techniques you need so that you ... What you'll learn Learn just enough Python to do Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Description Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning & AI are hot areas right now. But to learn these, for some of us programming is a bit of a problem. Not all of us are from a programming background. Or some come from a Java background and might not know Python. These days, Python is the de-facto ( almost) programming language for Data Science. So, to fill that gap, we have created a course that covers just enough Python for you to start up and running with any of you the Machine learning algorithms you are interested in.


Tip: Seven recommendations for introducing artificial intelligence to your newsroom

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Artificial intelligence is now commonly used in journalism for anything from combing through large datasets to writing stories. To help you prepare for the future, the Journalism AI team at Polis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), put together a training module seven things to consider before adopting AI in your news organisation. "Keep in mind that this is not a manual for implementation," writes professor Charlie Beckett who leads Journalism AI. "The recommendations will help you reflect on your newsroom AI-readiness but they won't tell you how to do design a strategy. We link to more resources that might help you with that and we hope to produce more training resources ourselves in the near future." For more insights into the Journalism AI report, you can watch this three-minute video, as well as Charlie Beckett's presentation of the report at its launch event.


Semantic Similarity To Improve Question Understanding in a Virtual Patient

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--In medicine, a communicating virtual patient or doctor allows students to train in medical diagnosis and dev elop skills to conduct a medical consultation. In this paper, we describe a conversational virtual standardized patient sy stem to allow medical students to simulate a diagnosis strategy o f an abdominal surgical emergency. We exploited the semantic properties captured by distributed word representations t o search for similar questions in the virtual patient dialogue syste m. We created two dialogue systems that were evaluated on dataset s collected during tests with students. The first system based on handcrafted rules obtains 92.29% as F 1-score on the studied clinical case while the second system that combines rules an d semantic similarity achieves 94.88%. It represents an error reduction of 9.70% as compared to the rules-only-based system. The medical diagnosis practice is traditionally bedside taught. Theoretical courses are supplemented by internshi ps in hospital services. The medical student observes the practi ce of doctors and interns and practices himself under their contr ol. This type of learning has the disadvantage to confront immediately the medical student with complex situations withou t practical training (technical and human) beforehand.


Review of Deep Learning A-Z Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks JA Directives

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Are you interested in the field of Deep Learning? Here is the short and useful Review of Deep Learning A-Z Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks. If you are in the intermediate level people who know the basics of Deep Learning and Machine Learning, including the classical algorithms like linear regression or logistic regression and more advanced topics like Artificial Neural Networks, but who want to learn more about it and explore all the different fields of Deep Learning. This is one of the Best Seller courses on Udemy where students enrolled more than 157K with 21K reviews and 4.5 average star rating. With this top-selling Deep Learning tutorial, you will learn how to create Deep Learning Algorithms in Python from two Machine Learning & Data Science experts.


Machine Learning Lecture

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Between 2011 and 2017, researchers now at argmax.ai Using an inverted-classroom approach, all slides are commented as video lectures. Below you will find all relevant course material for free perusal.


Mastering TypeScript - Programmer Books

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The TypeScript compiler and language has brought JavaScript development up to the enterprise level, yet still maintains backward compatibility with existing JavaScript browsers and libraries. Packed with practical code samples, this book brings the benefits of strongly typed, object-oriented programming and design principles into the JavaScript development space. Starting with core language features, and working through more advanced topics such as generics and modules, you will learn how to gain maximum benefit from your JavaScript development with TypeScript. By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently implement a TypeScript application from scratch.