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The unreasonable importance of data preparation

O'Reilly on Data

Beyond the autonomous driving example described, the “garbage in” side of the equation can take many forms—for example, incorrectly entered data, poorly packaged data, and data collected incorrectly, more of which we’ll address below. The model and the data specification become more important than the code.

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The quest for high-quality data

O'Reilly on Data

The good news is that researchers from academia recently managed to leverage that large body of work and combine it with the power of scalable statistical inference for data cleaning. HoloClean adopts the well-known “noisy channel” model to explain how data was generated and how it was “polluted.”

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Managing risk in machine learning

O'Reilly on Data

There are also many important considerations that go beyond optimizing a statistical or quantitative metric. As we deploy ML in many real-world contexts, optimizing statistical or business metics alone will not suffice. How to build analytic products in an age when data privacy has become critical”. Culture and organization.

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A Guide To The Methods, Benefits & Problems of The Interpretation of Data

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Qualitative data, as it is widely open to interpretation, must be “coded” so as to facilitate the grouping and labeling of data into identifiable themes. Quantitative analysis refers to a set of processes by which numerical data is analyzed. It is the sum of the values divided by the number of values within the data set.

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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

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As a direct result, less IT support is required to produce reports, trends, visualizations, and insights that facilitate the data decision making process. From these developments, data science was born (or at least, it evolved in a huge way) – a discipline where hacking skills and statistics meet niche expertise.

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Glossary of Digital Terminology for Career Relevance

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Chatbots cannot hold long, continuing human interaction. Traditionally they are text-based but audio and pictures can also be used for interaction. They provide more like an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) type of an interaction. NLG is a software process that transforms structured data into human-language content.

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4 Ways To Grow Your Business With Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Outside of that, it is important to know how your customers interact with your products, buying trends, what devices they use, what times they like to shop, and so much more. Collecting too much data would be overwhelming and too little – inefficient. Data collection is just a step data-driven approach.

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