Weekly Selection — May 19, 2019

TDS Editors
Towards Data Science
2 min readMay 19, 2019

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The Remarkable world of Recommender Systems

By Parul Pandey — 10 min read

An overview of the Recommendation systems and how they provide an effective form of targeted marketing.

It’s 2019 — Make Your Data Visualizations Interactive with Plotly

By Jeff Hale — 12 min read

Find the path to make awesome figures quickly with Express and Cufflinks

Implementing SPADE using fastai

By Divyansh Jha — 8 min read

Generating photo-realistic images using GANs

ARIMA/SARIMA vs LSTM with Ensemble learning Insights for Time Series Data

By Sharmistha Chatterjee — 14 min read

AR models express the current value of the time series linearly in terms of its previous values and the current residual, whereas MA models express the current value of the time series linearly in terms of its current and previous residual series.

Four ways to quantify synchrony between time series data

By Jin Hyun Cheong — 7 min read

Sample code and data to compute synchrony metrics including Pearson correlation, time-lagged cross correlations, dynamic time warping, and instantaneous phase synchrony.

GANs vs. Autoencoders: Comparison of Deep Generative Models

By Matthew Stewart, PhD Researcher — 23 min read

Want to turn horses into zebras? Make DIY anime characters or celebrities? Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are your new best friend.

Becoming a Level 3.0 Data Scientist

By Jan Zawadzki — 9 min read

Want to be a Junior, Senior, or Principal Data Scientists? Find out what you need to do to navigate the Data Science Career Game

Data Scientists Are Thinkers

By Conor Dewey — 4 min read

Data scientists serve a very technical purpose, but one that is vastly different from other individual contributors. Unlike engineers, designers, and project managers, data scientists are exploration-first, rather than execution-first.

Using Ant Colony and Genetic Evolution to Optimize Ride-Sharing Trip Duration

By James Le — 13 min read

Urban transportation is going through a rapid and significant evolution. Since the birth of the Internet and smartphones, we have become increasingly connected and are able to plan and optimize our daily commute.

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