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Blockchains could be every Data Scientist’s dream

Dataconomy

Bitcoin is currently trading at over $1250 and if you are someone who invested a grand in bitcoins back in 2011, your investments are potentially worth over $600K. The post Blockchains could be every Data Scientist’s dream appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Top Companies to work for if you are a data scientist

Data Science 101

LinkedIn’s 2017 report had put Data Scientist as the second fastest growing profession and it’s number one on 2019’s list of most promising jobs. There are three main reasons why data science has been rated as a top job according to research. Checkout: 1010 Data Careers. #4 How can you get a job as a data scientist?

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LLM Agents Underscore One Truth: Data Is The Real Differentiator.

Towards AI

Edited Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash In ML engineering, data quality isn’t just critical — it’s foundational. Since 2011, Peter Norvig’s words underscore the power of a data-centric approach in machine learning. Yet, this perspective often gets sidelined and there was never a consensus in the ML community about it.

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OPINION: The world is changing fast. Students need data science instruction ASAP

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Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability. The goal is not to create an army of professional data scientists straight out of high school.

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Running Code and Failing Models

DataRobot

As a data scientist, one of my passions is to reproduce research papers as a learning exercise. I found many examples of machine learning code that ran without errors but that were built using flawed data science practices. Their code attempted to create a validation test set based on a prediction point of November 1, 2011.

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Here’s Why Automation For Data Lakes Could Be Important

Smart Data Collective

There were a lot of promises made about Big Data that fell at the feet of data scientists to make happen. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn’t, but the overall feeling when it came to Big Data was still positive because of the potential it had for delivering insights to the business world.

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Announcing new Jupyter contributions by AWS to democratize generative AI and scale ML workloads

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Project Jupyter is a multi-stakeholder, open-source project that builds applications, open standards, and tools for data science, machine learning (ML), and computational science. Given the importance of Jupyter to data scientists and ML developers, AWS is an active sponsor and contributor to Project Jupyter.

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