
Tag: matlab
Nobody likes doing work that isn’t needed, since it consumes time and money with no discernable return. In an ideal world, we would perform the minimum amount of maintenance required to maximize performance or uptime. Read more…
As programming languages go, there’s no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the most popular language for data science. But is Python’s fame coming at the expense of R? Read more…
Nothing is quite so personal for programmers as what language they use. Why a data scientist, engineer, or application developer picks one over the other has as much to do with personal preference and their employers’ Read more…
If you were a data scientist three years ago, you could pretty much write your own ticket. Everybody in the industry, it seemed, either wanted to hire a data scientist, or wanted to be one. Read more…
As the world’s fifth largest digital advertising network, AOL chews through a lot of data. That’s not surprising. What may surprise you, however, is the unconventional way that the company goes about assembling its data science team to ensure the highest return for its advertising clients. Read more…
Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disease that impacts the lives of 1 to 2% of the world’s population, who generally have no idea when their next seizure will happen. Medical researchers who have been stumped so far in using brain-wave data to predict seizures in a large segment of the population are hopeful that a data science competition at Kaggle will point them in the right direction. Read more…