… a more careful understanding of the data might suggest that Amazon is a lot more important than it may seem at first glance, and that the lack of benefit from “savings” in other areas can easily be understood when the data is explored more thoroughly. As a data scientist, that’s the kind of thing I need to be able to do in order to tell a story that is not only compelling, but accurate.
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I found TensorFlow initially confusing but then quite comfortable. It’s odd how after programming in a language like Python for a while, it becomes confusing that you have to declare “placeholders” (variables) and constants up-front, then initialize them.
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A bottom-up study of the potential economic impact of climate change shows how a large-scale data analysis should be done
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The American Red Cross is running computers with an obsolete and unsupported operating system, and using them to collect HIPAA protected personal health and other information! If a Russian or North Korean hacker can break your system because you’re using 16 year-old software that hasn’t been supported for two years, then you as an organization have failed.
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