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2015 Data Science Salary Survey
The recently published 2015 Data Science Salary Survey conducted by O’Reilly takes a look at the salaries received, tools used and other interesting facts about Data Scientists around the World. It’s...
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Making Sense of Logarithmic Loss
Logarithmic Loss, or simply Log Loss, is a classification loss function often used as an evaluation metric in kaggle competitions. Since success in these competitions hinges on effectively minimising...
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Kaggle: Walmart Trip Type Classification
Walmart Trip Type Classification was my first real foray into the world of Kaggle and I’m hooked. I previously dabbled in What’s Cooking but that was as part of a team and the team didn’t work out...
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Kaggle: Santa’s Stolen Sleigh
This morning I read Wendy Kan’s interesting post on Creating Santa’s Stolen Sleigh. I hadn’t really thought too much about the process of constructing an optimisation competition, but Wendy gave some...
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Durban Data Science Meetup
The next Durban Data Science Meetup will be taking place on 4 February. Check out the programme and come along if you’re in the area. Send enquiries to Andrew. The post Durban Data Science Meetup...
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International Open Data Day
As part of International Open Data Day we spent the morning with a bunch of like minded people poring over some open Census South Africa data. Excellent initiative, @opendatadurban, I’m very excited to...
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A keynote talk by Edward Tufte at the Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit (2016). Introduction by David Smith. The post Edward Tufte – The Future of Data Analysis appeared first on...
View ArticleRafal Lukawiecki – Putting Science into the Business of Data Science
A talk by Rafal Lukawiecki at the Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit (2016). Data science relies on the scientific method of reasoning to help make business decisions based on...
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Fitting a Statistical Distribution to Sampled Data
I’m generally not too interested in fitting analytical distributions to my data. With large enough samples (which I am normally fortunate enough to have!) I can safely assume normality for most...
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satRday Cape Town: Call for Submissions
satRday Cape Town will happen on 18 February 2017 at Workshop 17, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa. Keynotes and Workshops We have a trio of fantastic keynote speakers: Hilary...
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