In the News
Alien Knowledge - When Machines Justify Knowledge
Machines are creating their own kind of intelligence that humans can't fully understand. In some circles that's a problem but we don't fully understand our own brains either - and yet, we accept what they tell us. This is a fascinating exploration of the nuances of intelligence, aliens, and a kind of science fiction that we're already living in.
The World’s Most Beautiful Mathematical Equation
It turns out our brains respond to mathematical ideas in ways that are similar to how our brains respond to beauty in things like art, music, and nature. Scientists have actually identified one equation, in particular, that wins the beauty contest.
Tools and Techniques
Architecture of Giants: Data Stacks at Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, and Pinterest
Here's a great overview of the data architectures that drive some of the largest businesses on the Internet. Because their products have massive adoption, the data teams at these organizations are continually pushing the limits and redefining what it means to do analytics at scale. This is the state of the art in April 2017.
Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams
This post by Julia Silge shows how to mine a collection of texts using tidy data principles and n-grams. This is very well written and includes useful code snippets along the way.
Introduction to NumPy
Sebastian Raschka, author of Python Machine Learning, is working on a new book. This time, the subject is Deep Learning and Sebastian is posting chapters on GitHub as they're written. The newly released "Appendix F" introduces NumPy and offers a glimpse into the breadth and accessibility of the upcoming book.
Resources
Data Science Cheatsheets
Here's a collection of well-organized data science cheatsheets for R, Advanced R, Python, Numpy, and Pandas.
Podcasts
a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups
Startups might feel that they can't compete with big companies because the big guys have all the data but the reality is a lot less clear. This is a great discussion about the many ways that startups and small businesses can, and do, successfully compete with big companies.
Data Viz
Circular Visualization in R
This online book serves as the documentation for the circlize R package and it may be the best package documentation I've ever seen. It covers use cases for circular visualizations, design considerations, detailed instructions for using the package and lots of examples.
The history of looking at data visualizations
Visualization has been around for a long time and it's evolved over the ages. This is an insightful longread about how data visualization has changed as peoples' ability to understand visualizations have evolved. This is a must-read for people that are interested in the craft of data visualization.
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