Data science digest #36 (2 - 8 February 2015)

(Russian version is here)

General

• Future Forecast AI Edition: Deep Learning and Why Elon Musk Is Wrong
• Google Brain’s Co-inventor Tells Why He’s Building Chinese Neural Networks
•  Why now is the time to learn R
•   Should you teach Python or R for data science?
• Machine learning in online dating
• Four great visualizations
•  Why is Python a language of choice for data scientists?
• The Incredible AI That Can Watch Videos and Tell You What It’s Seeing
• A Startup’s Neural Network Can Understand Video
• 6 Tips for Being an Awesome Data Scientist

Theory, machine learning algorithms and code samples

• Shazam It! Music Processing, Fingerprinting, and Recognition
•  Prototype ML/NLP Code Tutorial Series Lesson 1: Working With Text
•  Text Understanding from Scratch
•  Sharing Your Shiny Apps
•  Quickcheck: Randomized unit testing for R
•  Data Analysis with Pandas
•  Prior Distributions for Bayesian Regression Using PyMC
•  A Machine Learning Result

Online courses, learning materials and literature

•  Book Introduction: High-Performance Data Mining and Big Data Analytics

Videos, podcasts

• Partially Derivative: Episode 12: Partially Deflated

Data engineering

• Google had its biggest quarter ever for data center spending. Again
• Could Microsoft Cosmos Challenge Hadoop?
• Data Processing with Apache Crunch at Spotify
• Apache Hive 1.0.0 Has Been Released

Digests

• Top stories in January: (Deep Learning Deep Flaws) Deep Flaws; Research Leaders on key trends, papers (KDnuggets.com)
• Top stories for Jan 25-31: (Deep Learning Deep Flaws) Deep Flaws; Text Analysis 101: Document Classification (KDnuggets.com)
• 64 new external resources and articles about data science, big data - February 5 (DataScienceCentral.com)
• Data Science News 6 Feb 2015 (MyDataMine.com)
• Big Data News 3 Feb 2015 (MyDataMine.com)
• This Week in Data (February 6, 2015) - r1soft.com
• Issue 21 - February 6th 2015 (DataElixir.com)
•  This Month in the Ecosystem (January 2015)
• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 6th, 2015 (HighScalability.com)

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