KDnuggets 16:n32: Data Scientist was sexiest job until…; Up to Speed on Deep Learning

Features

• Cartoon: Data Scientist - the sexiest job of the 21st century until …
• Up to Speed on Deep Learning: July Update
• How Convolutional Neural Networks Work
• Learning from Imbalanced Classes
• What is the Role of the Activation Function in a Neural Network?
• Is "Artificial Intelligence" Dead? Long Live Deep Learning?!?
• A Tutorial on the Expectation Maximization (EM) Algorithm
• Data Mining Tip: How to Use High-cardinality Attributes in a Predictive Model
• PAW Healthcare: Improve patient care with predictive analytics, Oct 23-27, New York

 Software

• MDL Clustering: Unsupervised Attribute Ranking, Discretization, and Clustering

 Tutorials, Overviews, How-Tos

• A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks Part 1
• The Evolution of IoT Edge Analytics: Strategies of Leading Players
• The Human Vector: Incorporate Speaker Embeddings to Make Your Bot More Powerful
• HPE Haven OnDemand: Powerful Data Connectors for the Cloud and Enterprise
• How Can Data Scientists Mitigate Sensitive Data Exposure Vulnerability?
• Introduction to Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME)
• A Gentle Introduction to Bloom Filter
• A Primer on Logistic Regression - Part I
• A simple approach to anomaly detection in periodic big data streams

 Opinions

• How to Become a Data Scientist - Part 2
• How to Become a Data Scientist - Part 3
• Interpretability over Accuracy
• The Acceleration of Data Science Excellence
• 7 Big Data Steps in Health Science
• 4 Online Data Science Training Options for Your Team
• Rio Olympics 2016 on Twitter: Positive Sentiment (75%), Water Sports, Simone Biles Win

 News

• New Poll: Which methods/algorithms you used for a Data Science or Machine Learning application?
• Top August Stories: The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know; How to Become a Data Scientist
• Top /r/MachineLearning Posts, August: Google Brain AMA, Image Completion with TensorFlow, Japanese Cucumber Farming
• Top Stories, Aug 29-Sep 4: How Convolutional Neural Networks Work; Activation Functions in Neural Networks
• Top Stories, Aug 22-28: How to Become a Data Scientist; 10 Need to Know Machine Learning Algorithms
• Data Science vs Crime: Detecting Pickpocket Suspects from Transit Records
• Whitepaper: Big Data Visualization With Datashader
• New Book: TensorFlow for Machine Intelligence, KDnuggets Offer
• Cartoon: Labor Day in the era of Robotics

 Webcasts

• Webinar: Modern Regression Modeling for Voter MicroTargeting, Sep 14, Sep 21

 Courses

• The top 5 Big Data courses to help you break into the industry
• Build Your Analytics Skills with TDWI Online Learning

 Meetings

• See You at the Top Data Conference: TDWI Austin
• Upcoming Meetings in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science: September and Beyond
• Insurance Analytics Europe, 5-6 October, London, UK
• More answers, less theory from Big Guns at Big Data LDN, Nov 3-4
• PAPIs 16 Conference on Predictive Applications & APIs, Oct 10-12, Boston
• KNIME Summit, San Francisco, Sep 14-16, KDnuggets Offer
• PAW Healthcare: Improve patient care with predictive analytics, Oct 23-27, New York

 Jobs

• GuideOne: Enterprise Information Architect
• Wise Athena: Senior Data Scientist (Madrid)
• Booking: Data Scientist - Machine Learning
• Booking: Data Scientist - Analytics
• Hitachi: Research Scientist, Machine Learning
• FEIM: Senior Sales and Business Analyst
• Lubrizol: Analytics Statistician

  Academic

• U. of Virginia: Tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Quantitative Analysis

  Top Tweets

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 24-30: #DataScientist - sexiest job of the 21st century until …; Activation Function in #NeuralNetworks.
• Top KDnuggets tweets, Aug 17-23: Approaching (Almost) Any #MachineLearning Problem; #Database Nirvana - can one query language rule them all?

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