Dan Clark
Financial Times
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Datawatch: killings of journalists at four-year high as Ukraine war takes toll
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World Cup 2022 in charts: how football is changing
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The women turning to sex work to make ends meet
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World Cup: Gareth Southgate puts faith in England’s tried and trusted players
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Best US/Canada Masters in Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Science
Data Science and Analytics is a very hot field, and demand for data scientists is still growing strongly. Many universities stepped in and created many degrees in the field, primarily Masters degrees. Back in 2017, we ran a series of articles looking at the best of these degrees in America, Europe and Online. Luckily for you, we’ve now updated this comprehensive list and added lots more Masters… → Read More
2019 Best Masters in Data Science and Analytics – Online
Data Science and Analytics is a very hot field, and demand for data scientists is still growing strongly. Many universities stepped in and created many degrees in the field, primarily Masters degrees. Back in 2017, we ran a series of articles looking at the best of these degrees in America, Europe and Online. Luckily for you, we’ve now updated these comprehensive lists and added lots more… → Read More
2019 Best Masters in Data Science and Analytics – Europe Edition
Back in 2017 we ran a series of articles looking at the Best Masters in Data Science and Analytics, looking at Online courses, courses in America/Canada and in Europe. Well, we’ve updated that list now with the latest details, fees and university rankings, as well as adding a whole bunch of new countries and courses. As before, the costs are limited to full-time tuition and most of them do not… → Read More
State of the art in AI and Machine Learning – highlights of papers with code
As any Machine Learning, AI or Computer Scientist enthusiast will know, finding resources and papers on subjects you’re interested in can be a hassle. Often you’re required to sign up to a website and some will even try to charge you a subscription fee for reading the work of others. This is what makes the site Papers with code so great; they provide a magnitude of free resources covering a… → Read More
Tackling Brexit — diary of an interactive journalist
As an interactive journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times, my day-to-day work can be extremely varied. I could be creating a line chart showing the results of an opinion poll for an election… → Read More
The Best and Worst Data Visualizations of 2018
As an interactive journalist at The Times newspaper, my job is to make interesting and engaging data visualization for our readers to help further explain a news story. Because of this, I spend a lot of time searching for good and bad examples currently on the market, to raise my own understanding of the industry and find inspiration for future work. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favourite… → Read More
Top Active Blogs on AI, Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning – updated
Back in 2017 we created a list of 90 active blogs across Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science and Machine Learning. Two years on and we’ve decided to update that list, pushing the number up to 100 and giving you more choice than ever to be able to read more on topics that interest you. This year, we’ve removed 24 blog sites from the previous list that no longer met our active… → Read More
Top Python Libraries in 2018 in Data Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning
We recently published a series of articles looking at the top Python libraries, across Data science, Deep Learning and Machine Learning. As the year draws to a close, we thought we’d give you a special Christmas gift, and collate these into a KDnuggets official top Python libraries in 2018. As always, we want your opinions! So, if you think we’ve unfairly left any out, or if you disagree with… → Read More
Top 10 Python Data Science Libraries
Python continues to lead the way when it comes to Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning and Data Science tasks. According to builtwith.com, 45% of technology companies prefer to use Python for implementing AI and Machine Learning. Because of this, we’ve decided to start a series investigating the top Python libraries across several categories: Top 10 Python Data Science Libraries – this post Top X… → Read More
Top 13 Python Deep Learning Libraries
Python continues to lead the way when it comes to Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning and Data Science tasks. According to builtwith.com, 45% of technology companies prefer to use Python for implementing AI and Machine Learning. Because of this, we’ve decided to start a series investigating the top Python libraries across several categories: Top 13 Python Deep Learning Libraries ✅ - this post… → Read More
Top 8 Python Machine Learning Libraries
Python continues to lead the way when it comes to Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning and Data Science tasks. According to builtwith.com, 45% of technology companies prefer to use Python for implementing AI and Machine Learning. Because of this, we’ve decided to start a series investigating the top Python libraries across several categories: Top 8 Python Machine Learning Libraries ✅ Top X Python… → Read More
Docker Cheat Sheet
Docker is an increasingly popular tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy and run applications within a container. We recently published an article – Data Scientist guide for getting started with Docker – which hopefully laid out some of the basics. As we have done in the past with SQL, Python Regular Expressions and many others, we thought it would be useful to have a centralized… → Read More
Data Scientist guide for getting started with Docker
Introduction Docker is an increasingly popular tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy and run applications within a container. Containers are extremely useful as they allow developers to package up an application with all the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one package. It’s commonly used by software engineers, but how can Data… → Read More
Why Germany did not defeat Brazil in the final, or Data Science lessons from World Cup
(this blog was written jointly with Gregory Piatetsky). The 2018 World Cup is over, with France defeating Croatia 4-2 in the final. It was a great match, to end a brilliant tournament, with the French deserved winners. Now is the time for reflection, as we look back on the predictions we made from the beginning of the tournament. Review So how did it go? Will we be switching careers to become… → Read More
GDPR after 2 months – What does it mean for Machine Learning?
GDPR (The General Data Protection Regulation) is a very significant EU law that offers major new data and privacy protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). GDPR took effect on May 25, 2018. You probably have all received countless emails from companies updating their privacy policies to comply with GDPR. Much has been written about… → Read More
SQL Cheat Sheet
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for querying a database. As with any language, it can useful to have a list of common queries and function names as a reference. We hope this cheat sheet can be of help to you: Basic keywords Before we delve in to some basic common queries, lets take a look at some of the keywords that you’ll come… → Read More