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8 Best Books on Data Science with Python in 2021
Python is one of the most widely used programming languages in the data science field. Python has many packages and libraries that are specifically tailored for certain functions, including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, and SciPy. So if you are looking for the Best Books on Data Science with Python, then you should check these books. In this article, you will find 8 Best Books on Data Science with Python. These books will give you in-depth knowledge starting from basics to advanced level.
Teaching NLP with Bracelets and Restaurant Menus: An Interactive Workshop for Italian Students
Pannitto, Ludovica, Busso, Lucia, Combei, Claudia Roberta, Messina, Lucio, Miaschi, Alessio, Sarti, Gabriele, Nissim, Malvina
Although Natural Language Processing (NLP) is at the core of many tools young people use in their everyday life, high school curricula (in Italy) do not include any computational linguistics education. This lack of exposure makes the use of such tools less responsible than it could be and makes choosing computational linguistics as a university degree unlikely. To raise awareness, curiosity, and longer-term interest in young people, we have developed an interactive workshop designed to illustrate the basic principles of NLP and computational linguistics to high school Italian students aged between 13 and 18 years. The workshop takes the form of a game in which participants play the role of machines needing to solve some of the most common problems a computer faces in understanding language: from voice recognition to Markov chains to syntactic parsing. Participants are guided through the workshop with the help of instructors, who present the activities and explain core concepts from computational linguistics. The workshop was presented at numerous outlets in Italy between 2019 and 2021, both face-to-face and online.
Maximizing Mutual Information Across Feature and Topology Views for Learning Graph Representations
Fan, Xiaolong, Gong, Maoguo, Wu, Yue, Li, Hao
Recently, maximizing mutual information has emerged as a powerful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. The existing methods are typically effective to capture information from the topology view but ignore the feature view. To circumvent this issue, we propose a novel approach by exploiting mutual information maximization across feature and topology views. Specifically, we first utilize a multi-view representation learning module to better capture both local and global information content across feature and topology views on graphs. To model the information shared by the feature and topology spaces, we then develop a common representation learning module using mutual information maximization and reconstruction loss minimization. To explicitly encourage diversity between graph representations from the same view, we also introduce a disagreement regularization to enlarge the distance between representations from the same view. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating feature and topology views. In particular, compared with the previous supervised methods, our proposed method can achieve comparable or even better performance under the unsupervised representation and linear evaluation protocol.
Best Deep Learning Books to Read in 2021
The increasingly sophisticated field of artificial intelligence (AI) has grown and spawned several disciplines that deserve their own focused consideration, namely machine learning (ML) and the ML subset "deep learning." As it sounds, deep learning is the process of leveraging data analytics and the latest gains in computing power to enable computers to observe, learn, and respond to relatively complex situations faster than humans can. Given this rapid evolution in AI and its offshoots, there are now several good deep learning books available for those aspiring to master the technology. Although there may be concerns about AI taking peoples' jobs (Skynet, anyone?), the truth is that advances in AI--and by extension, deep learning--have generated a huge demand for talent. Whenever there is demand, job security and good wages tend to follow.
7 Free Resources To Learn Explainable AI
Explainable AI (XAI) is key to establishing trust among users and fighting the black-box nature of machine learning models. In general, XAI enhances accountability and reliability in machine learning models. For a long time, tech giants like Google, IBM and others have poured resources on explainable AI to explain the decision-making process of such models. Below are the top free resources to understand Explainable AI (XAI) in detail. About: Explainable Machine Learning with LIME and H2O in R is a hands-on, guided introduction to explainable machine learning.
Applied Machine Learning For Healthcare
Needs are changing with time and so the technology. Self-driving cars, or Siri, what do these have in common? Well! they are largely the examples of machine learning being utilized as a part of this real world. Machine learning today has changed the way we look and the way we interact with the technology. Even the healthcare sector is getting transformed by the ability to record massive amounts of information about individual patients, the enormous volume of data being collected is impossible for human to analyze.
Geometric Model Checking of Continuous Space
Bezhanishvili, Nick, Ciancia, Vincenzo, Gabelaia, David, Grilletti, Gianluca, Latella, Diego, Massink, Mieke
Topological Spatial Model Checking is a recent paradigm that combines Model Checking with the topological interpretation of Modal Logic. The Spatial Logic of Closure Spaces, SLCS, extends Modal Logic with reachability connectives that, in turn, can be used for expressing interesting spatial properties, such as "being near to" or "being surrounded by". SLCS constitutes the kernel of a solid logical framework for reasoning about discrete space, such as graphs and digital images, interpreted as quasi discrete closure spaces. In particular, the spatial model checker VoxLogicA, that uses an extended version of SLCS, has been used successfully in the domain of medical imaging. However, SLCS is not restricted to discrete space. Following a recently developed geometric semantics of Modal Logic, we show that it is possible to assign an interpretation to SLCS in continuous space, admitting a model checking procedure, by resorting to models based on polyhedra. In medical imaging such representations of space are increasingly relevant, due to recent developments of 3D scanning and visualisation techniques that exploit mesh processing. We demonstrate feasibility of our approach via a new tool, PolyLogicA, aimed at efficient verification of SLCS formulas on polyhedra, while inheriting some well-established optimization techniques already adopted in VoxLogicA. Finally, we cater for a geometric definition of bisimilarity, proving that it characterises logical equivalence.
Python scikit-learn Tutorial – Machine Learning Crash Course
Scikit-learn is one of the most popular machine leaning libraries for Python. It provides many unsupervised and supervised learning algorithms that make machine leaning simpler. We just published a scikit-learn course on the freeCodeCamp.org This course will teach you the basics of scikit-learn so you can start using it in your own machine learning projects. Vincent D. Warmerdam created this course.