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Top 14 Must-Read Data Science Books You Need On Your Desk

datapine

By gaining the ability to understand, quantify, and leverage the power of online data analysis to your advantage, you will gain a wealth of invaluable insights that will help your business flourish. The ever-evolving, ever-expanding discipline of data science is relevant to almost every sector or industry imaginable – on a global scale.

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Defining data science in 2018

Data Science and Beyond

I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics.

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Becoming a machine learning company means investing in foundational technologies

O'Reilly on Data

Use ML to unlock new data types—e.g., Consider deep learning, a specific form of machine learning that resurfaced in 2011/2012 due to record-setting models in speech and computer vision. 58% of survey respondents indicated they are building or evaluating data science platforms. Key features of many data science platforms.

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Software commodities are eating interesting data science work

Data Science and Beyond

I learned about Bayesian statistics and conjugate priors. Towards the end of my PhD in 2012, I got into Kaggle competitions. Back then, it seemed like “real” data science consisted of building and tuning machine learning models – that’s what Kaggle was all about.

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Top Companies to work for if you are a data scientist

Data Science 101

There are three main reasons why data science has been rated as a top job according to research. Firstly, the number of available job openings is rapidly increasing and the highest in comparison to other jobs, data science has an extremely high job satisfaction rating, and the median annual salary base is undeniably desirable.

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The curse of Dimensionality

Domino Data Lab

Statistical methods for analyzing this two-dimensional data exist. This statistical test is correct because the data are (presumably) bivariate normal. When there are many variables the Curse of Dimensionality changes the behavior of data and standard statistical methods give the wrong answers.

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What is data science?

Data Science and Beyond

Data science has been a hot term in the past few years. Despite this fact (or perhaps because of it), it still seems like there isn't a single unifying definition of data science. Data Scientist (n.): This post discusses my favourite definition.