The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything, and building predictions during this time is difficult. Data science teams need to update their models to prepare for the recovery, and know how to properly train 2020 data models to learn from the coronavirus anomaly.

The book Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing by Ron Kohavi (Microsoft, Airbnb), Diane Tang (Google) and Ya Xu (LinkedIn) is available for purchase, with the authors proceeds from the book being donated to charity.

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So in this article, we will interpret, analyze the COVID-19 DNA sequence data and try to get as many insights regarding the proteins that made it up. Later will compare COVID-19 DNA with MERS and SARS and we’ll understand the relationship among them.

Interactive visualizations are an effective method for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents a repository filled with just such insightful interactions.

A growing consensus of researchers contend that new algorithms are needed to transform narrow AI to AGI. Brain Simulator II is free software for new algorithm development targeted at AGI that you can experiment with and participate in its development.

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Check out these 5 cool Python libraries that the author has come across during an NLP project, and which have made their life easier.

GIS has mostly been behind more popular buzzwords like machine learning and deep learning. GIS has always been around us in the background being used in government, business, medicine, real estate, transport, manufacturing etc.

You walk down one aisle of the grocery store to get your favorite cereal. On the dairy aisle, someone sick from COVID-19 coughs. Did your decision to grab your cereal before your milk possibly keep you healthy? How can these unpredictable, near-random choices be included in complex models?

This year's KDD Cup features four distinct tracks that welcome participants to tackle challenges in e-commerce, generative adversarial networks, automatic graph representation learning (AutoGraph) and mobility-on-demand (MoD) platforms. Winners will be recognized at KDD 2020, the leading interdisciplinary conference in data science, in San Diego on August 23-27, 2020.

Here is an overview of another great natural language processing resource, this time from Microsoft, which demonstrates best practices and implementation guidelines for a variety of tasks and scenarios.

This post explains using a pre-trained GAN to generate human faces, and discusses the most common generative pitfalls associated with doing so.

This article demonstrates how building a smarter API serving Deep Learning models minimizes the response time.

AI tools and services are expanding at a rapid clip, and keeping a handle on this evolving ecosystem is crucial for the success of your AI projects. This framework will help you build your technical stack to deploy AI projects faster and at scale.

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Optimus, FQ-GAN and Prevalent bring new ideas to apply generative models at large scale.

As the global economy dwindles, tech companies are hiring en masse. Now is the time to get yourself noticed as a Data Scientist and try to land your dream job.

At present, the data scientist is one of the most sought after professions. That’s one of the main reasons why we decided to cover the latest data visualization tools that every data scientist can use to make their work more effective.

This post will unravel a practical example to illustrate and motivate the intuition behind each step of the spectral clustering algorithm.

So, you are interested in machine learning? Here is your complete learning path to start your career in the field.

This online course is available – for free – to anyone interested in building practical skills in using data to solve problems better.

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Check out this curated collection of coronavirus-related projections, dashboards, visualizations, and data that we have encountered on the internet.

Train a "blackbox" GBM model on a real dataset and make it explainable with SHAP.

Understanding the types of statistical bias that pop up in popular media and reporting is especially important during this pandemic where the data -- and our global response to the data -- directly impact peoples' lives.

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Check out this comprehensive guide to model optimization techniques.

Marketing scientist Kevin Gray asks Dr. Anna Farzindar of the University of Southern California about chatbots and the ways they are used.

Why is Gradient Descent so important in Machine Learning? Learn more about this iterative optimization algorithm and how it is used to minimize a loss function.

With time-series decomposition, we were able to infer that the consumers were waiting for the highest sale of the year rather than buying up-front.

I realized that from a corporate perspective, “fortune teller” was not entirely off from the role of a “data scientist”.

As can be common in many technical fields, the landscape of specialized roles is evolving quickly. With more people learning at least a little machine learning, this could eventually become a common skill set for every software engineer.

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The Spotify-owned company’s new tool may help businesses get more out of their webinars and online conference content.

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Love it or hate it, the double sidebar makes context switching a lot easier as you move between ad accounts or from other search engines.

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Acoustic’s head of product marketing said his company made major pivots at the start of last month. This is how he built a martech stack that allowed for such massive shifts.

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This year,the company says it has removed “tens of millions” of COVID-19 related ads.

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Aprimo CMO says marketers are currently struggling with what he calls “digital sameness” — where everyone is doing the same thing online.

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