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Real-World Machine Learning Case Study: Clustering Transactions Based on Text Descriptions. In this article, we’ll talk about a real-world use case of a financial institution using clustering (a popular machine learning algorithm) to customize their product offerings for its customer base.

Why China’s Race For AI Dominance Depends On Math. Forget about “AI” itself: it’s all about the math, and America is failing to train enough citizens in the right kinds of mathematics to remain dominant.

Ban on Chinese apps, including TikTok, surprises India content makers. As tensions continue to rise between India and China – principally over the recent conflicts at their disputed Himalayan border – India this week issued a ban on 59 China-based applications, including WeChat and the massively popular TikTok platform. In a statement issued by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Indian government said the applications posed a threat to “sovereignty and integrity.”

This Edureka video gives you a brief introduction to Big Data and how it is revolutionizing in various domains.

There’s not one reason California’s covid-19 cases are soaring—there are many.

1. Ethnic disparities

Throughout the state, Latinos make up by far the largest share of cases (56%) and deaths (42%), according to data from the California Department of Public Health. While Latinos make up 39% of the population, whites are a close second at 37% but represent only 17% of covid-19 cases.

These infections appear to be concentrated within low-income communities, where people are often essential workers who can’t do their jobs from home, can’t afford to call in sick and may live in crowded housing conditions, according to information from contact tracing programs as well as other research and reporting. Language, immigration status and financial issues can complicate efforts to successfully reach infected patients or their close contacts in these communities, and convince them to isolate themselves for extended periods.

Early results from a covid-19 screening project in San Francisco’s heavily Hispanic Mission neighborhood found that 95% of those who tested positive were “Hispanic or Latinx” (the difference is explained here). And 90% of infected patients said they couldn’t work from home.

2. People are becoming cavalier

People are ignoring safety practices, according to a state breakdown of counties experiencing rising cases. Too often, they’re not wearing masks or staying far enough away from each other.

3. Explosions in prison cases

More than 2,500 state and federal prison inmates throughout California are infected with the coronavirus. More than 1,000 prisoners and staff members tested positive in San Quentin State Prison alone during the last few weeks, in an outbreak linked to the transfer of inmates from the California Institution for Men in Chino, where there are more than 500 active cases.

4. An influx of cases from elsewhere

A variety of other factors are driving higher case counts, including increasingly widespread testing across the state (which totaled nearly 106,000 on Sunday), continuing outbreaks in nursing homes in several counties, and patients from outside California crowding into counties with better testing and treatment.

A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls. A utopian vision: In 1996, John Perry Barlow, co-founder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence of cyberspace”, a broad vision of a free and open internet controlled by its users. That vision now feels naïve, with today’s internet rules by the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu. But a not-for-profit in Switzerland called Dfinity wants to revive it. Dfinity wants to allow the creation of apps that can run on the network itself rather than on servers owned by Facebook, Google or Amazon. Can it succeed where others have failed?

Best Online Data Science Courses — Get a Data Science Certificate. The 4 Best Online Data Science Courses. Finding the top data science courses online is one of the most important steps you can take towards landing a job in the field. Choosing to learn data science online is convenient than traditional classes because courses are accessible anywhere, and are often self-paced, making online courses a great option for working students. These popular online data science courses from Coursera are four of the most trusted options:

#1- What is Data Science?

#2- Clinical Data Science Specialization

#3- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

#4- Data Science Specialization

How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilization. Could we wake up one morning dumbstruck that a super-powerful AI has emerged, with disastrous consequences? Books like Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, as well as more recent articles, argue that malevolent superintelligence is an existential risk for humanity.

The Top Five Challenges In IoT Digital Enterprise Transformation (Part One)

Top Google AI Tools for Everyone. Turn ideas into reality with Google AI Hub

How the Internet of Things is Building Smarter Cities. Today’s infographic from Raconteur explores how the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a vital component in the creation of more efficient, sustainable, and resilient cities, and illustrates the growing impact this will have on both people and the planet.

Cloud computing: More costly, complicated and frustrating than expected – but still essential A new report by Capita shows that UK businesses are growing disillusioned by their move to the cloud. It might be because they are focusing too much on the wrong goals.

Launching and Scaling Data Science Teams: Project Summary. Best practice playbooks for building data science into your organization

New research: How top technology organizations meet transformation challenges. Managing the fallout from technology transformations. McKinsey

The State of the Internet. Internet Shutdowns Become a Favorite Tool of Governments: ‘It’s Like We Suddenly Went Blind’. From autocratic Iran to democratic India, governments are cutting people off from the global web with growing frequency and little scrutiny. Parts or all of the internet were shut down at least 213 times in 33 countries last year, the most ever recorded, according to Access Now, a nonprofit that advocates for a free internet and has monitored the practice for a decade. The shutdowns were used to stop protests, censor speeches, control elections and silence people, human-rights advocates said.

The Death of Data Scientists – Will AutoML Replace Data Scientists?

(The Gardian): On February 19, the European Commission launched ”Report on the safety and liability implications of Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics”. “.. a blizzard of proposals and policy papers under the general umbrella of “shaping Europe’s digital future”. The documents released included: a report on the safety and liability implications of artificial intelligence, the internet of things and robotics; a paper outlining the EU’s strategy for data; and a white paper on “excellence and trust” in artificial intelligence.

Traditional Pay-TV Operators Lost Record 6 Million Subscribers in 2019. The U.S. satellite and cable TV business declined at an unprecedented rate last year — with traditional pay-TV providers dropping a staggering 6 million customers, a 7% year-over-year decline . AT&T lost more customers than any others, with a 1.16 million loss. Comcast lost 149,000 customers and Charter lost 101,000.

The Role of Academia in Data Science Education. Data science is not a discipline but rather an umbrella term used to describe a complex process involving not one data scientist possessing all the necessary expertise, but a team of data scientists with nonoverlapping complementary skills.

Free Data Science tutorials. 3 levels: Unlock latest Data Science tutorials for beginners, Level up to more exciting Data Science tutorials and Master essential Data Science skills and evolve as a Data Scientist

Use Cases of Data Science in Retail – How tech giants are using it?

How Big Data and Analytics are Transforming Elite Basketball. It all started at the back end of the noughties when the Rockets were one of four NBA teams that installed a video tracking system that mined raw data from games. When analyzed the data revealed which shots had the highest rates of success. They were two-point dunks and three-point shots from outside the three-point line

The ultra-rich are investing in companies trying to reverse aging. Is it going to work? If you can’t defeat death, what if you could postpone it, or at least postpone the diseases commonly associated with getting old? Many people, especially the ultra-wealthy in Silicon Valley, are investing money into companies trying to answer exactly those questions.

Three Major Fields of Artificial Intelligence and Their Industrial Applications. Three major directions of artificial intelligence technology, that are speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing are explained.

Change in Google Search is killing it. Google’s latest update nearly cost it the very thing that fueled its success, going by reactions from users and the media. On January 14, 2020, Google changed the design of its search engine results and immediately got a huge backlash from both users and the media.

Coursera – American online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses, specializations, and degrees. Number of employees: 450 (January 2020)

Earning Millions on YouTube Is So Easy, Children Are Doing It. The Forbes list of top earners is out, and an eight-year-old boy and six-year-old girl beat out almost everyone else.

Data center spending: Four trends you need to know

Israeli startups are greasing the wheels of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Investment in Israeli I4 startups jumped from $413 million in 2018 to $650 million in 2019. How did a tiny country without a significant manufacturing sector become so important to the Fourth Industrial Revolution – and how will that help us all?

Simple Text Analysis in Python: From Reviews to Insights

How to Learn Data Science when Life does not Give You a Break. I Struggled to Dedicate Time for Data Science. But Finding new Strategies Enables me to Boost my Learning Rate and Accomplish More