Banana Data News

- [Discussion] When ML and Data Science are the death of a good company: A cautionary tale. on Reddit "This project is very likely going to fail, and cause serious harm to the company as a whole financially and from a people perspective." - Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. Take One That Isn’t. by FiveThirtyeight "But you can do better than those specious — yet irresistible — quizzes. You can take a personality quiz backed by science." - How I Eat For Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Instagram by Chris Buetti "I’ll admit — it’s rather technical and not everyone can reproduce my methodology." - The Tentpoles of Data Science by simplystats "In particular, I think there are broadly five "tentpoles" for a good data scientist. Each tentpole represents a major area of activity that will to some extent be applied in any given data analysis." - Personalized Recommendations for Experiences Using Deep Learning by Work at Tripadvisor "In this blog post, we will explain how our newly-developed ‘Recommended For You’ (RFY) model generates personalized recommendations on our website using users’ browsing history and deep learning." - Comparing Python and SQL for Building Data Pipelines by Towards Data Science "As I set out on cleaning, aggregating and engineering features for the data, I tried to decide which language would be best for the task." - Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly by sanau "In this article, we’ll show you a scenario where a small change to the front-facing interface could reduce the accuracy of an ML model powering the application." - We Can Do Better Than SQL by Edge DB "In fact, SQL’s beginnings as a "simple, ad-hoc" language coupled with "design by implementation" from competing vendors had left the language with a baggage of severe issues." - TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow! By Hackernoon "The consequences of what just happened are going to have major ripple effects on every industry, just you wait." - Selling data products is the wrong business model for AI startups by Mark Johnson "There seem to be two distinct options emerging: either build a series of data products available to all, or create a platform to build bespoke products, unique to each customer." - 2019 State of Salaries Report by Hired "Data reveals tech worker salary trends across the globe" - How Data (and Some Breathtaking Soccer) Brought Liverpool to the Cusp of Glory by NY Times "In soccer, pure chance can influence outcomes to a much greater extent than in other sports. Goals are relatively rare, fewer than three per game in England’s Premier League."