• Human Face Recognition Found In Neural Network Based On Monkey Brains
  A neural network that simulates the way monkeys recognise faces produces many of the idiosyncratic behaviours found in humans, says computer scientists...

• Automating the Data Scientists
  Software that can discover patterns in data and write a report on its findings could make it easier for companies to analyze it...

• Valentine’s Day diners are getting more demanding
  Are we slowly moving away from the abstract notions of a romantic, immersive dinner, to a more prescribed and structured experience?...

Data Science Articles & Videos

• The Rise of Algorithmic HR
  Why companies are turning to data-driven AI for hiring...

• What interests reddit?
  A network analysis of 84M comments by 200K users...

• Rugby Union analytics – five ways data is changing the sport
  Saracens technical analyst Bill Gerrard is a sports data expert and longtime collaborator with Billy Beane. Here he charts how data is reshaping rugby union...

• The Hot Yet Little-Known Trend That’ll Supercharge AI
  When Andrew Ng trained Google’s army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags...

• Rise of the robo investor: Bay Area is ground zero for automated wealth management
  "Robo advisers" are changing the way Americans invest, and their dramatic growth promises to reshape the business of wealth management...

• Doctors store 1,600 digital hearts for big data study
  Doctors in London have stored 1,600 beating human hearts in digital form on a computer. The aim is to develop new treatments by comparing the detailed information on the hearts and the patients' genes...

• Cupid in your network
  Facebook Valentines Study: Single and secretly wondering which of your friends might be able to introduce you to your future soulmate?...

• What To Do During Machine Learning Model Runs
  In this post I give you a few perspectives on how to consider this question, minimize it and even avoid it completely...

• Mr. Spearman or how to explore changes in trends
  Exploring changes in names in USA...

Jobs

• Senior Data Scientist - Booking.com - Amsterdam

  Booking.com is looking for data savvy professionals to join our team of data scientists. You will be working with stakeholders throughout the company to generate understanding, strategy and suggest actions based on data. As a senior data scientist you will be hands on, but also be expected to take on coaching of more junior co-workers and some management responsibilities. If you consider yourself to be that unique hybrid of data hacker, business analyst, communicator and mentor that maintains a strong customer focus and values pragmatism over perfection, then we’d like to hear from you. Our international team is located in beautiful Amsterdam and a full relocation package is provided...

Training & Resources

• nosebook
  A nose plugin for finding and running IPython notebooks as nose tests...

• Proceedings of the 13th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2014)
  Proceedings of the 2014 Scipy Conference! Papers and videos...

• An R tutorial for Microsoft Excel users
  If you currently use a spreadsheet like Excel for data analysis, you might be interested in this tutorial on how to transition from Excel to R...

Books

• The Lady Tasting Tea:
  How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

  An insightful, revealing history of how mathematics transformed our world...
  
  "I have taken courses in statistics, taught it many times and solved several statistical problems that have appeared in journals. But until I read this book, I never really thought about it in so deep and philosophical a manner..."
  
  For a detailed list of books covering Data Science, Machine Learning, AI and associated programming languages check out our resources page.

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