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Where salaries stretch the farthest
Salaries are higher in big cities, but it also cost to live more…Tags: cost, Indeed, salary
Three-digit zip codes and data privacy
Birth date, sex, and five-digit zip code are enough information to uniquely identify a large majority of Americans. See more on this here. So if you want to deidentify a data set, the HIPAA Safe Harbor provision says you should chop off the last to digits of a zip code. …
How to Implement the Frechet Inception Distance (FID) for Evaluating GANs
The Frechet Inception Distance score, or FID for short, is a metric that calculates the distance between feature vectors calculated for real and generated images. The score summarizes how similar the two groups are in terms of statistics on computer vision features of the raw images calculated using the inception …
How to Increase Your Privacy Online
Today’s technology grants us the power to access information at lightning speeds, communicate with anyone in the world, and store and manage our most important files conveniently. The downside to these massive quality of life improvements is that they leave us vulnerable. If we aren’t careful, powerful corporations and nefarious …
✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2019 Roundup (The Process #54)
Every month I collect visualization tools and resources that you can use for or improve your work. Here's the good stuff for August 2019.Tags: roundup
Insight Boston Alumni: Where are they now?
Insight Boston began its journey in 2015, with the first and only fellowship program dedicated to a career in Health Data Science. In 2017, we expanded the location to include our Data Science program, and in early 2018, we welcomed our first Data Engineering Fellows. Since Insight’s launch in Boston, …
Becoming a Data Journalist: 3 Big Mistakes I’ve Made
Becoming a data journalist and learning to code isn't as difficult as you might think, but you have to approach it in the right way to avoid common mistakes. The post Becoming a Data Journalist: 3 Big Mistakes I’ve Made appeared first on Dataquest.
How Big Data Is Changing the Job Market
In this contributed article, Magnolia Potter explains how big data has had a significant impact on the way candidates look for jobs, as well as on how employers make hiring decisions. Also provided are some of the ways in which big data has changed the job market.
How Big Data Leads To Improvements In Company Letterhead Designs
Big data has been at the forefront of the design industry for years. A number of companies have written detailed articles on the utilization of data visualization with graphics. However, big data can be effective in more rudimentary designs as well. There are a lot of effective ways to use …
Navigating The Big Data ICT Training Process In The UK
Are you considering a career in big data? There are a lot of great opportunities in the UK. You can find a lot of potential job openings, but you need to navigate the ICT training process to qualify for a work visa. Get ICT Training to Thrive in a Career …
6 Data-Driven Marketing Strategies That Are Revolutionizing Sales
The sales profession is responding to major changes brought by big data. The big data revolution is making the sales industry more efficient and effective than ever. In 2019, Forbes contributor Louis Columbus wrote a great article on the ways that big data is changing the sales and marketing profession. …
Optimizing a Pokémon team with simulation
Emily Robinson recently took up Pokémon on Nintendo Switch: I recently started playing…Tags: Pokemon, R
Deep Reinforcement Learning
This article provides an excerpt “Deep Reinforcement Learning” from the book, Deep Learning Illustrated by Krohn, Beyleveld, and Bassens. The article includes an overview of reinforcement learning theory with focus on the deep Q-learning. It also covers using Keras to construct a deep Q-learning network that learns within a simulated …
Alternative Data Meets Fintech: Tweets, Parking Lot Pictures and Criminal Take-downs
In an increasingly competitive market, how are fintech companies adapting to improve their decision making? In industries such as insurance, capital markets, cryptocurrency, wealth and asset management — alternative data is proving to be a valuable source of insight. Like a broken leaf to a hunter or a change of …
Is machine learning research moving in the right direction
Research in machine learning has seen some of the biggest and brightest minds of our time - and copious amounts of funding - funneled into the pursuit of better, safer, and more generalizable algorithms. As the field grows, there is vigorous debate around the direction that growth should take (for …
NLP and Transfer Learning
NLP and Transfer Learning Natural language processing just took a leap forward with the release of new high-quality language models combined with transfer learning. As you know, at Cloudera Fast Forward Labs, we have been researching this leap forward and have just finished a new report on the topic. These …
Two approaches for data validation in ML production
Machine learning models start to deteriorate once we deploy them. This is partly because real life data changes, and models need to be re-trained to maintain their performance. Typical ML pipelines re-train periodically (daily, for example) using newly available data. But how do we validate data fed into the pipelines …
Want To Contribute To An Upcoming Book?
I’ve just started working with O'Reilly on a new book, and we are looking for people to contribute their thoughts for inclusion in the book. The book is going to be called 97 Things About Ethics Everyone In Data Science Should Know. This book will be part of a larger …