KDnuggets 16:n29: Data Science for Beginners: Fantastic series; Automating Data Science Contest Winners

Features

• Data Science for Beginners: Fantastic Introductory Video Series from Microsoft
• Contest 2nd Place: Automating Data Science
• Contest Winner: Winning the AutoML Challenge with Auto-sklearn
• Reinforcement Learning and the Internet of Things
• Cartoon: Facebook data science experiments and Cats
• Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare - Oct 23-27 in New York

 
 Software

• Real-Time Decisions for Real Results

 
 Tutorials, Overviews

• 7 Steps to Understanding Computer Vision
• Brain Monitoring with Kafka, OpenTSDB, and Grafana
• Contest 2nd Place: Automated Data Science and Machine Learning in Digital Advertising
• Getting Started with Data Science - R

 
 Opinions

• Advice for Data Science Interviews
• Choosing Tools for Data ETLs
• Understanding the Bias-Variance Tradeoff: An Overview
• Nigeria: Telling Internally Displaced Persons Stories Using Visual Data and Infographics
• Making Data Science Accessible - HDFS
• Common Sense in Artificial Intelligence... by 2026?

 
 News

• MICCAI 2016 Cancer Radiomics Challenge
• Top Stories, Aug 1-7: Bayesian Machine Learning, Explained; Data Science for Beginners Video Series
• Top July stories: Bayesian Machine Learning, Explained; Why Big Data is in Trouble: They Forgot About Applied Statistics
• Insurers, the new kids on the blockchain: Everledger, Guardtime and CGSC discuss why

 
 Webcasts and Webinars

• Stanford Webinar, Aug 24: Supersize Your Career with Big Data Opportunities
• The Inside Scoop on Apache Sqoop, Aug 25 Webinar
• Understand customer needs with choice modeling
• Looker: Exploring the Census, Aug 11 Webinar

 
 Courses, Education

• Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining IV, Washington, DC, Oct 19-20
• Data Science, Data Engineering Bootcamp, Seattle, Oct 10-14
• Introduction to Data Science and Data Visualization with D3.js: San Francisco and New York City
• BaseCamp - New Innovative Data Science Bootcamp in Vienna

 
 Meetings

• Connect with IoT Leaders, Learn and Network at Connected+, Toronto, Oct 12-13
• Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare - Oct 23-27 in New York
• Upcoming Meetings in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science: August and Beyond

 
 Jobs

• Trulia (Zillow Group): Data Scientist - Computer Vision & Deep Learning
• Wise Athena: Senior Data Scientist
• WeWork: Principal Data Scientist

 
 Top Tweets

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 27 - Aug 2: Understanding neural networks with Google TensorFlow Playground; Getting Started with Data Science in Python

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