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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Imagine this scenario: You enter your dentist’s office as a follow-up visit to the 6-month checkup you had last week. You’re nervous because the checkup revealed bleeding in your gums and cracks in your fillings, all things that require your dentist’s repair on this occasion. So, you’re there nervously fidgeting in the lobby waiting for your name to be called, envisioning all sorts of dentistry implements of torture that will soon be inside your mouth. Finally, when your name is called, you’re shown to the room of horrors and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Robert R. Tucci. Quantum computers come in 2 varieties, quantum annealers and quantum gate models. So far, DWave is the only company selling quantum annealers. A third type of device is now available from Fujitsu. Fujitsu calls its device a "quantum inspired digital annealer". The Fujitsu device does not have any quantum correlation (quantum entanglement) between separate qubits, so, in that sense, it is not a real qc, and Fujitsu doesn't claim it is, only that it is "quantum inspired". DWave, on the other hand, does claim partial quantum entanglement between ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Roman Chuprina. Machine Learning is a term heard around the world these days. Industries like Retail, Healthcare, and Manufacturing are taking the best out of it. So does the leaders in Banking and Finance. There is enough time and room before the technology will truly explode. However, we can still talk about some real-world use cases and ways your business can benefit. AI and ML in financial services Machine learning in finance is rapidly developing – there are already dozens of options for its use in the financial sector. So why ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Featured Resources and Technical Contributions  Key Graph Based Shortest Path Algorithms - Part 1: Dijkstra's And Bellman-Ford + Portfolio optimization with Quantum Computing Multi Gigabyte R data.table for Ohio Voter Registration/History Importance of Hyper-parameters in Model development Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave Docker in 10 minutes Scene-rendering with Google's DeepMind 5 Most Preferred Programming ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Fahad Zaidi. Having spent the better part of the last decade helping organisations in the U.S. and the U.K. use data to drive profit, efficiency, and performance improvements, I thought it would be helpful to jot down best practices for organizations that are looking to get the most value out of their enterprise-level financial and operational data sets. Every organisation entering the roaring 20s knows that they must use their data as a strategic differentiator to gain a competitive advantage and this article lists five things all companies must do to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Roman Chuprina. To get a defining advantage over the competitors the banks, as well as other financial institutions must dig deep into technology breakthroughs. Luckily, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are already here to help them to achieve it. Improving data processing will lead to better strategies and fraud prevention levels. Artificial Intelligence in Banking Statistics According to a forecast by the research company Autonomous Next, banks around the world will be able to reduce costs by 22% by 2030 through using artificial intelligence technologies. Savings could reach $1 trillion. Financial companies employ 60% ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Software is always not only a set of instructions but also a context that manages, interacts and executes these instructions. At the start of developing, the engineer configures a dev environment. He can continue to change it in all stages of development. The problem appears when we need to share our software with testers or deploy it to production. Up-to-date development technique known as CI/CD is to test and possibly to deploy code with all changes made by the developer. But, how can we share our code if it ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Murali Kashaboina. While many of the programming libraries encapsulate the inner working details of graph and other algorithms, as a data scientist it helps a lot having a reasonably good familiarity of such details.  A solid understanding of the intuition behind such algorithms not only helps in appreciating the logic behind them but also helps in making conscious decisions about their applicability in real life cases.  There are several graph based algorithms and most notable are the shortest path algorithms.  Algorithms such as Dijkstra’s, Bellman Ford, A*, Floyd-Warshall and Johnson’s algorithms ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Yoey Thamas. Near about 14% of the workforce or 375 million people worldwide could lose their jobs to AI and automation. Take a step back and look over the year that has gone by. What have you achieved? Are you being monolingual? For someone in the tech industry, this might render your career obsolete. In times when AI is taking over the world, being monolingual can be a disadvantage. The very nature of the technology industry requires you to stay updated in the latest tech skills, latest advances taking place in ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Maybe the biggest challenge we face as a society is our ability to unlearn – to let go of – outdated concepts and beliefs in order to adopt new approaches. Our everyday lives are dominated by outdated concepts: change the oil every 3,000 miles, don’t wear white before Memorial Day, only senior management has the best ideas, don’t eat dessert until you’ve cleaned your plate, trade wars are easy to win, leeches work wonders on headaches, etc. Well, I’m going to throw down the gauntlet and challenge everyone to ... Read More