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February 2019US-AI vs Chin-AI
What does the race for AI mean for data science worldwide? Why is it getting a lot of attention these days?Although it may still be recovering from the effects of the government shutdown, data science has received a lot of positive attention from the United States Government. Two major recent...
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February 2019Data science blogs I follow, and you should too
Working within the Data Science industry has made me religiously follow a few blogs that I use to stay up to date with industry trends, learn new concepts, and understand the vernacular.As a new member, these three things were originally hard for me to grasp until I started reading every...
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February 2019My Key Takeaways from the AI for Social Good Meetup
Raja Iqbal, Chief Data Scientist and CEO of Data Science Dojo, held a community talk on AI for Social Good. Lets look at some key takeaways. This discussion took place on January 30th in Austin, Texas. Below, you will find the event abstract and my key tak...
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February 2019Importance of Data Normalization Prior to Analytics
There are two key schools of thought on good practice for data management: normalization and standardization. Why does data normalization matter? Organizations are investing heavily in technology as artificial intelligence techniques, such as machine learning, continue to gain traction acr...
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January 20197 Data Science Conferences to Attend in 2019
If you've ever been to a conference, you know how much there is to learn. Which data science conferences will you attend? 2019's coming to an end. Check out my list of 8 Data Science Conferences To Attend In 2020. Data Science Dojo's sponsoring Kaggle Days Tokyo! Kagglers of all le...
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January 2019Does The Shift in Major League Baseball Work?
Take a look at WRC+, wOBA, and wRAA to determine if the shift is really creating a problem for Major League Baseball.Argue all you want, nobody was better on the diamond than Ted Williams. The last player to finish a season with a .400 avg, Teddy Ballgame was also one of the first r...
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January 2019Getting Started with Kaggle Competitions
What's a Kaggle Competition? I didn't know, so I looked it up. Get started by reading what I learned, and find an active list of competitions. First of all, what's Kaggle? Until a few months ago I didn't know the answer to that question. If you don't either th...
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January 2019How the Government Shutdown (was) affecting Data Science
During the longest government shutdown in the US history, many industries were affected, but maybe none more than data science. [UPDATE 1/28/19 The US Government Shutdown has ended, and online databases have been restored. The following article documents how the Dec 2018- Jan 2019 shutdow...
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January 2019Our Top Video Marketing Platforms
Online videos account for 80% of all consumer internet traffic. Here are some platforms that make data analysis easy.The importance of video marketing cannot be overstated. By 2019, video traffic will account for 80% of all consumer internet traffic, and one-third of all online...
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January 2019A Comprehensive Tutorial on Classification using Decision Trees
Complete the tutorial to revisit and master the fundamentals of decision tree classification models, one of the simplest and easiest models to explain. Introduction Data Scientists use machine learning techniques to make predictions under a variety of scenarios. Machine learning can be use...