This Week in Data Science (May 24, 2016)

Here’s this week’s news in Data Science and Big Data.

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Interesting Data Science Articles and News

• Building The Big Data Platform for Your Smart City – Using emerging technologies like Big Data and the Internet of Things, governments aim to build smart cities that understand their citizens and make fast decisions.
• These Headphones Know Your Ears Better than You Do – Nura, an Australian startup, built headphones that uses data from your ears to create headphones that adapt to your unique hearing.
• The Changing American Diet – See how the American diet has changed over the years using this data visualization.
• A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices – Eric Fischer analyzes the effects of rent control on San Francisco rent prices.
• The world’s first artificially intelligent lawyer was just hired at a law firm – ROSS is AI that uses the supercomputing power of IBM Watson to read through huge batches of data in order to help solve cases.
• What is text analytics? – Text analysis can provide insight by creating high-quality structured data from unstructured data.
• Exit Polls Visualized – View interactive data visualization of the presidential primary exit polls.
• How to think like a data scientist – whatever job you have – People from any career can benefit from thinking like a data scientist. To do so, test, tune and tell your story to drive change.
• How to create your own Machine Learning Predictive System in the NBA using Python – Learn how to use Python in order to create a database and use machine learning in order to predict game results in your favorite sport.
• Machine Learning and Fraud: Why Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Enough – Overreliance on automated screening is leading to false declines due to the lack of human input and insight.
• Strayer U Pilot Shows Student Success with Predictive Analytics – Strayer University’s use of an analytics infrastructure has proven useful in improving course attendence, drop rates, and success.
• Bitcoin Usage and The Future Of The Blockchain – Bitcoin introduced blockchain, which is a public registry of transactions that cannot be altered or erased. Although the future of Bitcoin remains uncertain, blockchain holds an enormous potential for impact.
• OK computer: When pop music meets machine learning – Can we use machine learning to auto-generate hit pop songs?
• IBM Watson amps up Moogfest 2016 with AI-infused programming – IBM Watson has been drastically improving since its success at Jeopardy! in 2011. To name a few, Watson has since created a cookbook, helped Doctors recommend treatment options, and designed a dress.

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