You’ve probably heard the term machine learning (ML) used a lot lately in consumer tech circles and among software developers. However, you may not know what it exactly consists of, how it works, and whether it’s worth investing your time and energy into ... (more…)

There has always been a census undercount because some people are hard to locate, contact, and interview. Read here how OmniSci is used to visualize a massive GPS mobility dataset, correlate the observations with historical censuses, and then predict cens... (more…)

Among the many R packages, there is the outbreaks package. It contains datasets on epidemics, on of which is from the 2013 outbreak of influenza A H7N9 in China, as analysed by Kucharski et al. (2014):

Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers is a concise, practical guide to help you hire the right people for your organization. The book will help you navigate the plethora of data science related roles and skills and help you create an effec... (more…)

It’s not about what it can do, but the effects of its prioritization. “The Business Implications of Machine Learning” is published by Drew Breunig in Free Code Camp...