This Week in Data Science (April 25, 2017)

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

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Interesting Data Science Articles and News

• The Value of Exploratory Data Analysis – A high level overview of Exploratory Data Analysis.
• A Dramatic Tour through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (including ggpy and Altair) – Rundown of traditional and new python visualization packages.
• Top 16 Machine Learning, Data Mining, and NLP Books for Data Scientists – 16 Books about ML, Data Mining and NLP that are worth reading.
• The History of Neural Networks – The history of neural networks in the context of Deep Learning.
• Development lifecycles for defining the meaning and structure of the data lake. – Understanding the relationship between various activities around the data lake.
• What to do with all that machine learning data – Combining Machine Learning and Decision Optimization in today’s businesses.
• How Big Data Helps Today’s Airlines Operate – The reason why companies are placing more value in insights gained from Big Data Analytics.
• NumPy Cheat Sheet – Python for Data Science
  – A cheat sheet to help with the use of NumPy functions.
• Big Data 101: Intro to Probabilistic Data Structures – A look into different data structures used during data analysis.
• Hot or Not? Top Programming Languages Today
  – A look into different trends in choice of programming languages.
• Is Blockchain the Ultimate Enabler of Data Monetization? – Discussion about the ability of blockchain to aid in the monetization of data and data analytics insights.
• What Makes a Good Analyst? – The different skills that contribute to the becoming a better analyst.
• March ’17 New Package Picks – A pick for the top 40 R packages released in March 2017.
• Meet the IBM Watson-powered robot that could make your next smartphone – How a cloud-connected robot arm could become the factory robots of tomorrow.
• Planet analytics: big data, sustainability, and environmental impact – A look at the relationship between Big Data and Environmental Sustainability.
• Data scientists really love their jobs, survey finds – The results of a CrowdFlower survey on data scientists and their satisfaction with their jobs.

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Upcoming Data Science Events

• Data Science: Classification Algorithms in Python(Hands-On) – April 25, 2017 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
• UofT Data Science Workshop: Intro to Clustering with R – May 2, 2017 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• UofT Data Science Workshop: Intro to Classification with R –May 4, 2017 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Cool Data Science Videos

• Machine Learning With Python – Dimensionality Reduction – Feature Extraction & Selection – Dimensionality Reduction using Feature Extraction and Selection.
• Machine Learning With Python – Unsupervised Learning – Density Based Clustering – A video from our Machine Learning with Python BDU course on Density Based Clustering.
• Machine Learning With Python – Measuring The Distances Between Clusters – HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING – A video covering measuring the distances between clusters using hierarchal clustering.