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Weekly Selection – Oct 20, 2017

Celebrating 1 Year of Towards Data Science

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By Cherie Chung – 3 min read.

Towards Data Science began only one year ago on October 21st, 2016. We have now grown into a community with over 30,000 followers on Medium, and presences across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.


Why OpenMined is Becoming a Role Model for Open-Source Projects

By Awa Sun Yin – 3 min read.

This is not the first time I write about OpenMined, an open-sourced project on encrypted and decentralised artificial intelligence.


Top 6 errors novice machine learning engineers make

By Christopher Dossman – 5 min read.

In machine learning, there are many ways to build a product or solution and each way assumes something different. Many times, it’s not obvious how to navigate and identify which assumptions are reasonable.


Find Your Best Customers with Customer Segmentation in Python

By Susan Li – 5 min read.

When it comes to finding out who your best customers are, the old RFM matrix principle is at work again. RFM stands for Recency, Frequency and Monetary.


Learning Maths for Machine Learning and Deep Learning

By Aneesha Bakharia – 3 min read.

While I did learn a lot of maths while doing my engineering degree, I forgot most of it by the time I wanted to get into Machine Learning. After I graduated I never really had a need for any of the maths.


From webdev to computer vision and geo

By Leonard Bogdonoff – 7 min read.

For the past four years, I’ve had the notion that I was going to start a company. The underlying feeling was that I wanted to work on something that I could passionately take full responsibility for.



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