Data science digest #35 (26 January - 1 February 2015)

(Russian version is here)

General

• (Deep Learning’s Deep Flaws)’s Deep Flaws
• Popular Linear Algebra MOOC switches from IPython to MATLAB
• When Grandmasters Blunder - A statistical analysis of chess
•  Can Microsoft make R easy?
• Awesome Artificial Intelligence (AI)
•   DataQuest – Free Browser-based Learning for Data Science
•  Introduction to Online Machine Learning : Simplified
•  Why you should learn R first for data science
• New to deep learning? Here are 4 easy lessons from Google
• Big Data: 5 Top Companies and Their Plans for 2015

Theory, machine learning algorithms and code samples

•  On Eigenfaces: Creating ghost-like images from a set of faces
•  A Statistical View of Deep Learning (I): Recursive GLMs
•   Implementing a Weighted Majority Rule Ensemble Classifier in Scikit-learn
•  Predictive Models in R Clustered By Tag Similarity
•  spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP
• Providence: Machine Learning At Stack Exchange
• How to Build a Predictive Model using Azure Machine Learning
•  Parallel Programming with GPUs and R
•  Real time Drone object tracking using Python and OpenCV
• Introducing streaming k-means in Spark 1.2
•  Introduction to Linear Regression
•  Data Science and Hadoop: Predicting Airline Delays – Part 3
• Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
•  Supervised and Unsupervised learning
•  Forecasting beer consumption with sklearn

Machine learning competitions

• Reviewing the American Epilepsy Society Seizure Prediction Challenge
• Online Learning Perceptron

Online courses, learning materials and literature

•  Supervised and Unsupervised learning
•  Book review: Getting started with data science in the cloud
•   Book: Beginning Data Science with R

Videos, podcasts

• Talking Machines: Episode Three: Kevin Murphy
•  Getting Started with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Data engineering

• Survey reveals a few interesting numbers about Apache Spark

Digests

• Top stories for Jan 18-24: Basics of Deep Learning to Get You Started; Top SlideShare Presentations on Big Data, updated (KDnuggets.com)
• Data Science News 29 Jan 2015 (MyDataMine.com)
• Big Data News 26 Jan 2015 (MyDataMine.com)
• Weekly Digest - February 5 (DataScienceCentral.com)
• Issue 20 - January 30th 2015 (DataElixir.com)
• This Week in Data (January 30, 2015) - r1soft.com
• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 30th, 2015 (HighScalability.com)

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