In the News
How Google is Remaking Itself as a "Machine Learning First" Company
If you want to build AI into every product, you better retrain your army of coders.
How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” Of Palantir
Palantir Technologies has the reputation of being one of the most formidable data analysis firms in Silicon Valley. But every organization is vulnerable somewhere. This article walks through the strategies that hired hackers used to access critical systems at Palantir.
One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow
Great insights here from a researcher in academia who made the move to industry.
Rogue Machine Intelligence and A New Kind of Hedge Fund
Interesting project. Numerai is a hedge fund that's built by a community of anonymous data scientists. "And it’s working."
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Tools and Techniques
Analyzing Public Health Data in R
Introduction to how R, mapping, and open data are used in the public health community.
The ffanalytics R Package for Fantasy Football Data Analysis
If you're interested in Fantasy Football Analytics, this whole blog is fantastic.
Facebook Page Post Scraper
Data scraper for Facebook Pages, which accompanies the blog post *How to Scrape Data From Facebook Page Posts for Statistical Analysis.
Data Viz
Best of the Visualisation Web
Andy Kirk's latest roundup of interesting data viz projects and tutorials from around the web. Always worthwhile.
Upcoming Conferences
O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference September 26-27 | New York
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Jobs & Careers
Recent Listings:
- Data Scientist at Zocdoc (New York).
- Data Science Course Mentor (Part-Time/Flexible/Remote) at Springboard.
- Data Engineer at FlixBus (Berlin).
- Backend Engineer at FlixBus (Berlin).
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