In a recent article by Dave Holtz, a Data Scientist in Airbnb, Data Science Jobs are classified into four types. A Data Scientist is a Data Analyst Who Lives in San Francisco Please Wrangle Our Data! We Are Data. Data Is Us Reasonably Sized Non-Data Companies Who Are Data-Driven Here are eight skills he proposed as … Continue reading Eight Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs and videos with far greater accuracy than ever before. The new software, described on Monday by researchers at Google and at Stanford University, teaches itself to identify entire scenes: a group of young men playing Frisbee, … Continue reading Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Congratulations to CDS Professor, Foster Provost! His book Data Science for Business has been recognized by Fortune as one of the Top 5 Must Read books for business schools. For the full article, click here. Continue reading Foster Provost’s Data Science for Business Recognized by Fortune
Congratulate our Data Science fellow, Brian McFee on winning ISMIR 2014 Best oral presentation and Best poster presentation awards! Best oral presentation: “Analyzing Song Structure with Spectral Clustering,” Brian McFee and Dan Ellis. Best poster presentation: “MIR_EVAL: A Transparent Implementation of Common MIR Metrics,” Colin Raffel, Brian McFee, Eric J. Humphrey, Justin Salamon, Oriol Nieto, Dawen Liang, Daniel P. W. … Continue reading Congratulate Brian McFee on Winning ISMIR 2014 Awards
“PyData conferences are a gathering of users and developers of data analysis tools in Python. The goals are to provide Python enthusiasts a place to share ideas and learn from each other about how best to apply the language and tools to ever-evolving challenges in the vast realm of data management, processing, analytics, and visualization.” … Continue reading PyData 2014
