What would the sky look like if Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or Neptune were as close to us as the Moon is now? Well, other than the global calamity caused by extreme tides and general astrophysical disruption, it looks quite pretty. If Planets were as close as the Moon pic.twitter.com/bBwIPtRQ1J — … Read moreBecause it’s Friday: If planets were as close as the moon
So it turns out that the 1990 Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park is, indeed, a work of fiction. (Personal note: despite the snark to follow, the book is one of my all-time favorites — I clearly remember devouring it in 24 hours straight while ill in a hostel in France.) … Read moreSimulating dinosaur populations, with R
Image File Format Any images are stored in memory, raster image contain pixel values arrange in regular matrix. Conversely, vector image represent geometric objects using continuous coordinates. If you scale up the raster image,resolution of the image will be lost but it does not happen in vector image. Raster image and … Read moreImage Processing Class #0.2 — Digital Image
Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI Collage is the language of the moment, but has been for over 100 years. Lets walk through where it came from (Dada), what it’s up to now (Instagram), and why it’s integral to the future of AI (Deep Fakes, GANS, and the ingrained copy). … Read moreWe are Collage
Nov 27, 2018 In this series of articles I will explain the inner workings of a neural network. I will lay the foundation for the theory behind it as well as show how a competent neural network can be written in few and easy to understand lines of Java code. … Read morePart 1: A neural network from scratch — Foundation
How art and wanting to change the world led me to data science Nov 27, 2018 Data plays a crucial role in understanding the world around us. I’ve been working with data in one way or another since before I could appreciate its value. Now I’m in an immersive data science … Read moreWhat better time than now?
Nov 27, 2018 I recently leveled up to fatherhood. That’s why I am currently on 5 months of parental leave (thank’s to the awesome team @store2be for going along with this!). Every morning at around 5am, I leave the bedroom with my son for the kitchen so his mom can … Read moreMap the solar system to a place near you –A NatGeo’s MARS inspired Shiny web app
This is the next article in my series on AzureR, a family of packages for working with Azure in R. I’ll give a short introduction on how to use AzureVM to manage Azure virtual machines, and in particular Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVMs). Creating a VM Creating a VM is … Read moreAzureVM: managing virtual machines in Azure
Reflections on how data (or lack thereof) helps (or fails) policy makers in developing countries Foreword When I stood up to speak last Friday at the Steering Committee meeting between the Ministry of Education of Ivory Coast and TRECC — a partnership for transforming Education in cocoa producing regions, led by the … Read moreThe Power of Data
A hands on guide for beginners on EDA and Data Science competitions Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an approach to analysing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods. Following are the different steps involved in EDA : Data Collection Data Cleaning Data Preprocessing Data Visualisation Data Collection … Read moreExploratory Data Analysis (EDA) techniques for kaggle competition beginners