Competing in a data science contest without reading the data Machine learning competitions have become an extremely popular format for solving prediction and classification problems of all sorts. The most famous example is perhaps the Netflix prize.…

I joined Analytics Vidhya as an intern last summer. I had no clue what was in store for me. I had been following the blog for some time and liked the community, but did not know what to expect as an intern. The initial few days were good – all the in…

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数据挖掘(data mining),机器学习(machine learning),和人工智能(AI)的区别是什么? 数据科学(data science)和商业分析(business analytics)之间有什么关系? 本来我以为不需要解释这个问题的,到底数据挖掘(data mining),机器学习(machine learning),和人工智能(AI)有什么区别,但是前几天因为有个学弟问我,我想了想发现我竟然也回答不出来,我在知乎和博客上查了查这个问题,发现还没有人写过比较详细和有说服力的对比…

本来我以为不需要解释这个问题的,到底数据挖掘(data mining),机器学习(machine learning),和人工智能(AI)有什么区别,但是前几天因为有个学弟问我,我想了想发现我竟然也回答不出来,我在知乎和博客上查了查这个问题,发现还没有人写过比较详细和有说服力的对比和解释.那我根据以前读的书和论文,还有和与导师之间的交流,尝试着说一说这几者的区别吧,毕竟一个好的定义在未来的学习和交流中能够发挥很大的作用.同时补上数据科学和商业分析之间的关系.能力有限,如有疏漏,请包涵和指正. 导论…

51 Free Data Science Books A great collection of free data science books covering a wide range of topics from Data Science, Business Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data to Machine Learning, Algorithms and Data Science Tools. Data Science Overviews An…

文章标题 Introducing DataFrames in Apache Spark for Large Scale Data Science 一个用于大规模数据科学的API——DataFrame 作者介绍 Reynold Xin, Michael Armbrust and Davies Liu 文章正文 Today, we are excited to announce a new DataFrame API designed to make big data processing even…

Comprehensive learning path – Data Science in Python Journey from a Python noob to a Kaggler on Python So, you want to become a data scientist or may be you are already one and want to expand your tool repository. You have landed at the right place.…

A Complete Tutorial to Learn Data Science with Python from Scratch Introduction It happened few years back. After working on SAS for more than 5 years, I decided to move out of my comfort zone. Being a data scientist, my hunt for other useful tools w…

15 Most Read Data Science Articles in 2015. So far … We've compiled the latest set of "most read" articles from the Data Science Weekly Newsletter. This is what is most popular thus far in 2015 - a mix of interesting applications of data science…