Data Science Weekly Newsletter

Issue

136

June 30, 2016

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How well do facial recognition algorithms cope with a million strangers?
In the last few years, several groups have announced that their facial recognition systems have achieved near-perfect accuracy rates, performing better than humans at picking the same face out of the crowd. But those tests were performed on a dataset with only 13,000 images — fewer people than attend an average professional U.S. soccer game. What happens to their performance as those crowds grow to the size of a major U.S. city?...

To all recruiters — use machine learning to hire better candidates
By creating a “model”, which is essentially a trained data set made from example inputs, companies can create accurate predictions or decisions as outputs rather than following a static procedure. This model can be used to make smarter choices in the recruitment process...

Why We Should Expect Algorithms to Be Biased
Technologies driven by algorithms and artificial intelligence are increasingly present in our lives, and we are now regularly bumping up against a thorny question: can these programs be neutral actors? Or will they always reflect some degree of human bias?...

The making and comparison of draft curves
Despite the growing popularity of drafts in each sport, I was disappointed to find that there are apparently (a) No open-source guideline for how to make a draft curve and/or value chart; (b) No attempt at comparing each of the sports’ draft curves simultaneously. Those will be my goals here...

Anticipating Visual Representations from Unlabeled Video
Anticipating actions and objects before they start or appear is a difficult problem in computer vision with several real-world applications. We present a framework that capitalizes on temporal structure in unlabeled video to learn to anticipate human actions and objects...

Detecting Money Laundering
Applying machine learning to AML has been challenging due to the limited availability of labeled datasets. However there are a number of unsupervised techniques that may be worth considering...

Human Or Machine: Can You Tell Who Wrote These Poems?
Can a computer write a sonnet that's indistinguishable from what a human can produce? Computer scientists at Dartmouth College tried to answer that question with a competition that NPR's Joe Palca reported on as part of his series, Joe's Big Idea...

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Data Scientist - Uber - NYC
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Hello, TensorFlow!
Building and training your first TensorFlow graph from the ground up...

Bayesian Statistics explained to Beginners in Simple English
Bayesian Statistics continues to remain incomprehensible in the ignited minds of many analysts...

open-source-society/data-science
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Data Scientists At Work A collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists...

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