ISSUE 271  ·   February 10, 2020        

In the News

An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus

If you think there's a business opportunity in predicting epidemics, you're not alone. A health monitoring platform called BlueDot warned its customers of the new coronavirus a week before it was announced by global health organizations. There's a lot of ways this problem could be approached. Here's a high-level look at how they're doing it and why.
Wired

Insight

The big data maturity levels

How advanced is your organization at making use of data? In this post, Jon Bratseth describes four key stages of data maturity with examples and relevant technologies that are typically used at each stage.
Jon Bratseth

AI trends: what to expect in 2020

Nice overview of AI accomplishments in 2019 and current trends for 2020. Includes lots of links to articles and papers along the way.
Tryolabs

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Governing the AI/ML Ecosystem

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Tools and Techniques

JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language

In Julia, you can almost always reuse someone else’s types or methods in your own software without issues. That's generally not the case in other languages and it's one of the key reasons that Julia's ecosystem is growing so fast. In this post, Lyndon White explores composability in Julia and why it works so well.
Lyndon White's Blog

ML-Fairness-Gym

The ML-Fairness-Gym is a new framework for building simple simulations that enable exploration of the potential long-term impacts of deploying machine learning systems in social environments.
Google AI Blog

{dm} - Relational Data Models

{dm} is an R package that provides tools for working with multiple related tables, whether they're stored as data frames or in a relational database. With {dm} you can easily create a tidy data model and filter, mutate or select on specific variables from a combined set of tables.
GitHub | Kirill Müller

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Resources

Privacy Preserving Deep Learning

This step-by-step tutorial by Andrew Trask is one of the best resources you'll find for learning about privacy-preserving machine learning. It's organized as a series of notebooks and is designed for beginners.
GitHub | OpenMined

Data Viz

D3 Gallery

This new D3 gallery is a great place to start for jump-starting a project or to just see examples of what's possible. Click on any of the thumbnails for a detailed page with editable, live code.
Observable

HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy

HiPlot is a lightweight interactive visualization tool to help researchers discover correlations and patterns in high-dimensional data. It can be run quickly from a Jupyter notebook with no setup required.
Facebook AI

Career

Are You Asking Too Much of Your Chief Data Officer?

This article in the Harvard Business Review breaks down the job of a CDO and identifies 7 different roles that would probably best be performed by a small team. The article is intended to help organizations figure out what they need exactly but it's also a good overview of evolving career opportunities for aspiring leaders and decision-makers.
Harvard Business Review

Job Board

In addition to the jobs below, there are new listings for a data science internship with the National Geographic Society, a data analyst position with the Human Rights Campaign, and 1 new remote data science position. Check them out >>

• Data Scientist at McGuireWoods - Richmond, VA - Come be a founding member of the data analytics team at McGuireWoods LLP. Join today and make an immediate impact by creating solutions and providing insights for the firm and its clients.
   
• Senior Data Analyst at komoot - REMOTE - Love data? Love outdoors? We do too! Millions of people explore nature and outdoors with our apps. Become a part of one of the most successful European startups and be a key player in helping us to make better data-driven product decisions.

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