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We prove that gradient descent efficiently converges to the global optimizer of the maximum likelihood objective of an unknown linear time-invariant dynamical system from a sequence of noisy observations generated by the system. Even though the objective function is non-convex, we provide polynomial running time and sample complexity bounds under strong but natural assumptions. Linear systems identification has been studied for many decades, yet, to the best of our knowledge, these are the first polynomial guarantees for the problem we consider.

This document is an invited chapter covering the specificities of ABC model choice, intended for the incoming Handbook of ABC by Sisson, Fan, and Beaumont (2017). Beyond exposing the potential pitfalls of ABC based posterior probabilities, the review emphasizes mostly the solution proposed by Pudlo et al. (2016) on the use of random forests for aggregating summary statistics and and for estimating the posterior probability of the most likely model via a secondary random fores.

Can you put order to space and time? This was the challenge posed to competitors of the Draper Satellite Image Chronology Competition (Chronos) which ran on Kaggle from April to June 2016. Over four-hundred Kagglers chose a path somewhere between man and machine to accurately determine the chronological order of satellite images taken over five day spans. In collaboration with Kaggle, Draper designed the competition to stimulate the development of novel approaches to analyzing satellite imagery and other image-based datasets. In this spirit, competitors' solutions were permitted to rely on hand annotations as long as their methodologies were replicable.

O'Reilly has released the results of the 2016 Data Science Salary Survey. This survey is based on data from over 900 respondents to a 64-question survey about data-related tasks, tools, and the salary they receive from doing/using them. The median salary reported in the survey was US 87,000; amongst data scientists in the US, the median salary was US 106,000. Appropriately for a survey about data science, O'Reilly doesn't merely report aggregate statistics from the survey; they fit a linear regression model for a data, and extact coefficients from the model indicative of salary "bumps" (or downgrades) attributable to demographic factors. Factors that tended to increase salary included: working in cloud computing environments; working with Python; and being older.

This is the first article from a series of articles I will be writing about the math behind SVM. There is a lot to talk about and a lot of mathematical backgrounds is often necessary. However, I will try to keep a slow pace and to give in-depth explanations, so that everything is crystal clear, even for beginners. Part 1: What is the goal of the Support Vector Machine (SVM)? Part 2: How to compute the margin?

Last week, we discussed Multi-class SVM loss; specifically, the hinge loss and squared hinge loss functions. In reality, these values would not be randomly generated -- they would instead be the output of your scoring function f. Let's exponentiate the output of the scoring function, yielding our unnormalized probabilities: Figure 2: Exponentiating the output values from the scoring function gives us our unnormalized probabilities. Figure 4: Taking the negative log of the probability for the correct ground-truth class yields the final loss for the data point. To examine some actual probabilities, let's loop over a few randomly sampled training examples and examine the output probabilities returned by the classifier: Note: I'm randomly sampling from the training data rather than the testing data to demonstrate that there should be a noticeably large gap in between the probabilities for each class label.

Last week, we discussed Multi-class SVM loss; specifically, the hinge loss and squared hinge loss functions. A loss function, in the context of Machine Learning and Deep Learning, allows us to quantify how "good" or "bad" a given classification function (also called a "scoring function") is at correctly classifying data points in our dataset. In fact, if you have done previous work in Deep Learning, you have likely heard of this function before -- do the terms Softmax classifier and cross-entropy loss sound familiar? I'll go as far to say that if you do any work in Deep Learning (especially Convolutional Neural Networks) that you'll run into the term "Softmax": it's the final layer at the end of the network that yields your actual probability scores for each class label. To learn more about Softmax classifiers and the cross-entropy loss function, keep reading.

What does "causality" mean, and how can you represent it mathematically? How can you encode causal assumptions, and what bearing do they have on data analysis? These types of questions are at the core of the practice of data science, but deep knowledge about them is surprisingly uncommon. If you analyze data without regard to causality, you open your results up for the possibility of enormous biases. This includes everything from recommendation system results, to post-hoc reports on observational data, to experiments run without proper holdout groups. I've been blogging a lot recently about causality, and wanted to go through some of the material at a more technical level. Recent posts have been aimed at a more general audience. This one will be aimed at practitioners, and will assume a basic working knowledge of math and data analysis. To get the most from this post you should have a reasonable understanding of linear regression and probability (although we'll review a lot of probability). Prior knowledge of graphical models will make some concepts more familiar, but is not required. Judea Pearl, in his book Causality, constantly remarks that until very recently, causality was a concept in search of a language.