This Week in Data Science (May 9, 2017)

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

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Interesting Data Science Articles and News

• The Colors Used by the Ten Most Popular Sites– Data Visualization showing plots of the colors used by some of the most popular sites.
• 42 Essential Quotes by Data Science Thought Leaders – Quotes from industry leaders giving insight into problems faced by those in the field.
• Warp your data to make it visually appealing – A short tutorial on how to create visually interesting plots without change important statistical properties.
• Deep Learning intuition for a business user – Deep Learning from a business leader perspective.
• Machine Learning overtaking Big Data? – A look at the different trends around ML and Big Data and other fields.
• Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing –An illustration and explanation of the importance data visualization.
• Deep Learning – Past, Present, and Future – A brief discussion of the field of Deep Learning and its impact.
• Infographic: Cloud use is growing, but the data center isn’t dead yet – The results of a survey on cloud usage among IT professionals and its implications.
• Gartner publishes Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management 2017: IBM identified as a Leader – IBM is apart of the ‘Leader’ quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the fourth consecutive year.
• MIT Step by Step Instructions for Creating Your Own R Package. – A guide to creating a package for R using RStudio.
• IBM’s Watson wants to help you make a movie – The Storytellers With Watson competition for artists who believe Watson may assist in their creativity.
• Which deep learning network is best for you? – A comparison of some open source frameworks.
• The key to identifying the next big threat: Data analytics & cybersecurity – A discussion about the use of data avert cyberattacks.
• R Packages worth a look – A look at some useful R packages.
• Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning – How Trulia uses Big Data and Machine Learning to provide a better user experience.
• IBM says big data has provided new insight into how Ebola spread – IBM employs Big Data analytics to investigate the spread of Ebola among animal carriers.

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