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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Packt Publishing. Tokenomics is the economy of this new world. This is a no-holds-barred, in-depth exploration of the way in which we can participate in the blockchain economy. The following is an excerpt from the book, Tokenomics by Thomas Power and Sean Au and published by Packt. One of the biggest challenges of playing in the ICO space is trying to understand the rules to play by. Regardless of what anyone says, we all live in a world bound by rules. We always have and always will, yet technology knows no ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. The opportunity to watch and coach the University of San Francisco (USF) students during our annual Hackathon with our friends at Good Dataprobably taught me as much as it taught the students. The lessons learned I’ll share here will not only benefit future classes, but my customers.  It also gives me an opportunity to make special mention of one Hackathon team that really delivered the goods! This year’s Hackathon focused on analyzing air traffic delays (a subject area with which I unfortunately consider myself an expert).  We used data ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: David Harris. In 1963 Benoit Mandelbrot published an article called “The Variation of Certain Speculative Prices.”  It is a response to the forming theory that would become Modern Portfolio Theory.  Oversimplified, Mandelbrot’s argument could be summarized as “if this is your theory, then this cannot be your data, and this is your data.”  This issue has haunted models such as Black-Scholes, the CAPM, the APT and Fama-French.  None of them have survived validation tests.  Indeed, a good argument can be made that the test by Fama and MacBeth in 1973 should ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ayush Srivastava. Since the industrial revolution, humanity has made tremendous progress in manufacturing. With time we have seen more and more of mundane manual work being replaced by automation through advanced engineering, computers, robotics and now IoT. We believe that recent advances in AI (or Deep Learning to be more precise) will help accelerate this trend towards automation in a fascinating way. This is because AI adds one very critical component that the factories have been missing till today — “The ability of machines to see”. With computer vision enabled robots, a lot ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rafael Knuth. Electronic spreadsheets have been around for nearly 40 years now. They were invented by Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, founders of VisiCalc, and I had a chance to chat with both gentlemen a couple of months ago. I highly recommend watching this TED talk with Dan Bricklin: It's important to understand for which purpose electronic spreadsheets were built in the first place if we want to anticipate what their future might look like. In response to my question in how far the future of spreadsheets is different from its ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Before we start, what is Power BI in the first place? As stated on its website: “Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization.” It is, by all means, no exhaustive definition of this instrument. The comprehensive set of features enables easy to use data import from a variety of files, simple to handle data transformations, beautiful visualizations with interactivity, and even more. Also, there are several possible ways to work with Power BI: Power BI Web, Mobile, Embedded, Desktop App. In ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Cheuk Ting Ho. Cheuk Ting Ho  is a London based and data scientist. She contributes to the data science community by being a public speaker, encouraging women in technology, and actively contributes to Python open source projects (Github Cheukting). Being a data ambassador in DataKind, she also provides data science solutions for charities. Cheuk is the co-author of Enterprise AI - An Applications Perspective  published by Data Science Central and is also an invited guest expert at the University of Oxford – Data Science for Internet of Things course for Time ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: steve miller. A So-So Second Date with Julia A few months ago, I wrote a quite positive blog on the Julia analytics language, reveling in its MIT pedigree, its comprehensible structure, and its interoperability with data science stalwarts R and Python. I demonstrated some of Julia's capabilities with a skinny data set of daily stock index values, and I showed it collaborating with R's powerful ggplot graphics subsystem. This time around, I decided to test Julia against a much meatier data set -- one that I've already examined extensively with both R and Python. I find ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  We’re rapidly approaching the point where AI will be so pervasive that it’s inevitable that someone will be injured or killed.  If you thought this was covered by simple product defect warranties it’s not at all that clear.  Here’s what we need to start thinking about. So far the press reports of AI misbehavior fall mostly in the humorous or embarrassingly incompetent categories.  Alexa orders doll houses when a little girl asks it to.  Robot guards fall into pools or push people over.  Google tags black people as ... 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.   Announcements Attend Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2019, to harness the power to cut through the AI hype and develop a strategy that impacts business. Build your agenda with sessions highlighting the latest trends and technologies that will help you thrive as a data & analytics leader and don’t miss your opportunity to meet privately with two Gartner ... Read More