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This Week in Data Science (June 21, 2016)

Posted on October 08, 2020 by Jacky Tea

This Week in Data Science (June 21, 2016)

Posted on June 21, 2016 by cora

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

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INTERESTING DATA SCIENCE ARTICLES AND NEWS

  • Privacy Fundamentalists Are Worried About Smart Toothbrushes – Some people are worried about smart toothbrushes because they fear the privacy of their children could be compromised.
  • 5 Data Acquisition Strategies For Startups – A vital component of data analysis and machine learning is the initial data acquisition. Here are five strategies to successfully acquire data.
  • Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning – Learn how Dango uses neural networks to predict emojii, stickers, and GIFs real time based on a user’s conversation.
  • This computer is selecting sound effects for silent videos that seem so real humans can’t tell they’re fake – MIT researchers have developed a computer system that independently adds realistic sounds to silent videos.
  • Social Data Gets Sticky: The Ethics Of Big Data In Research – With the increase of Big Data technology, the rules of ethics and security in Big Data research are struggling to get up-to-date.
  • What is Hadoop? – Hadoop is a free Java-based programming framework designed to help user’s process large data sets. Learn how Hadoop works and can better help your data analysis.
  • The Future Of Big Data Is Open Source – Companies are sharing information and data. Big Data has both its roots and future in open source technologies.
  • IBM Announces A Universal Platform For Data Science – IBM has launched a universal platform called the Data Science Experiance that integrates seperate protocols and enables advanced analytics.
  • The city where cyclists have buttons on their bikes to report unsafe streets
    – Cyclists in London are crowdsourcing to track unsafe streets.
  • Machine-Vision Algorithm Learns to Transform Hand-Drawn Sketches Into Photorealistic Images – Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have taught a neural network to turn hand-drawn face sketches into photorealistic portraits.
  • IBM forecasts Deep Thunder with machine learning & big data – IBM has launched Deep Thunder, a machine learning weather forecasting model that forecasts weather impact on business.
  • Can Watson the supercomputer make music with emotion? – IBM Watson is learning to recognize human emotion and deconstruct music in order to create music with emotion.
  • The History Of Data Mining – The history of data mining begins with statistics and is now at Big Data. Learn about the events that shaped the history of data mining.
  • How big data is changing the game for backup and recovery – Datos IO launched RecoverX to address recovery issues brought on by the rise of Big Data.

UPCOMING DATA SCIENCE EVENTS

  • Data Science for Developers – BDU and Lighthouse Labs invite all developers to attend a free 3-hour workshop on June 25th in Toronto.
  • Classification with Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machine – Learn about Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machines on June 28th in Toronto.
  • Data Science Summit 2016 – Whether you are a developer, business leader, or data scientists, attend this year’s Data Science Summit in San Francisco on July 12th-13th in order to learn about the new possibilities in machine learning and data science.
  • Faster Self-Service Analytics with Salesforce Data and Visualizations – Join this Data Science Central Webinar to learn about the power of self-service analytics on July 26th.

COOL DATA SCIENCE VIDEOS

  • Watch ‘Silicon Valley’ Star Thomas Middleditch In A Short Film Written By An AI System – Benjamin, an Artificial Intelligence system, created a nine-minute sci-fi short film.
  • AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer – This video walks us through the basics of deep learning and Artificial Intelligence.

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