The data industry is a rapidly evolving space with the development of new technologies, methodologies, and platforms almost every other day. So, keeping pace with this industry can be challenging indeed. I have, therefore, created a list of 15 tech and data science influencers who are not just a source of inspiration to data science professionals and aspirants alike but also ensure that you keep abreast of all the new developments. I have not taken social media influence and related metrics into account. I have created this list based on how much I personally enjoy the content these individuals share on their social media.

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The authors of this paper propose a method to increase training speed by freezing layers. The authors demonstrated a way to freeze the layers one by one as soon as possible, resulting in fewer and fewer backward passes, which in turn lowers training time. The authors experimented with different values for Equation 2.1 The authors tried scaling the initial learning rate so that each layer was trained for an equal amount of time. I demonstrated 2(and half of my own) very recent and novel techniques to improve accuracy and lower training time by fine tuning learning rates.

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A few months ago, my company, CrowdFlower, ran a machine learning competition on Kaggle. It perfectly highlighted the biggest opportunity (and challenge) with machine learning: What do you do with an 80% accurate algorithm? We uploaded data collected on our platform and Kaggle sent it out to over 1,000 data scientists, who competed to see who could build the best search model. The simplest approach gave a baseline accuracy of 32%. By the next morning, one team already had a 53% accurate model.

These are two excellent books on machine learning (AKA, statistical learning; AKA, model building). If we're talking about entry level data scientists to intermediate level data scientists, I'd estimate that they spend less than 5% of their time actually doing mathematics. Even if you use "off the shelf" tools like R's caret and Python's scikit-learn – tools that do much of the hard math for you – you won't be able to make these tools work without a solid understanding of exploratory data analysis and data visualization. While this figure is about data science in general, it also applies to machine learning specifically: when you're building machine learning models, 80% of your time will be spent getting data, exploring it, cleaning it, and analyzing results (using data visualization).

JOHN YANG: The days of employees working with one company for their entire career are long gone. In today's economy, most workers bounce around a lot. Tonight, he shares his Humble Opinion on the importance of one skill you need wherever you go. CARLOS WATSON, OZY Media: There's a big push in schools right now to get American kids to learn how to code. The thinking is that good jobs are hard to find, robots may soon take away many blue-collar jobs, at least the ones that haven't already gone overseas, and that learning how to program computers or even create apps is the perfect idea to protect against this tide.