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The Data Scientists Toolbox Visualisation
Having found myself with a bit of spare time over the Christmas Holidays, I drew the below visualisation based on the Coursera course on “The Data Scientist’s Toolbox” based on some of the key takeaways I noted down from the course. Its a bit like the show “Catchphrase” Say what you see….. Click the drawing…
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Playing a Game with Innovation and Thinking
I have been looking at ways to assist me with Innovation and Thinking and looking outside of the box. Lots of different methodologies exist and there is no right or wrong way to what method to use or when to apply it. After studying several methods in this arena and investigating, reading and learning some of…
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DevOps ES2014 – Slides/Videos
A couple of months old now, but still a great source of information from the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014 that was run earlier this year. These provide a great view into how other organisations are using DevOps within their business and in some cases its OpsDev Videos on a YouTube Channel DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014 –…
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In-depth Introduction to Machine Learning
There is an excellent set of videos covering an In-depth introduction to Machine Learning spread over a number of videos and PDFs links below. Chapter 1: Introduction (slides, playlist) Opening Remarks and Examples (18:18) Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (12:12) Chapter 2: Statistical Learning (slides, playlist) Statistical Learning and Regression (11:41) Curse of Dimensionality and Parametric…
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Data Science and Information Theory
I have recently been asked a question by a colleague “what’s the difference between Data Science and Information Theory?” Here is my viewpoint on this. Information Theory Wikipedia states “Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon…
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Learning Data Science
As a Architect I am always looking into ways of working with new technologies, innovations and fields. One of this is Data Science and as such I am currently undertaking a set of courses to get an understanding of the field of Data Science. Having a level of understanding will allow me to work more…
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A formula for Innovation
I have been looking into innovation and what drives innovation for some time now, whilst bring it and show it in my roles. I started to look at what innovation actually is and came across various equations for innovation that people have tried to create. These equations work in various ways, from consultancies on how…
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“If it’s obvious prove it. If you can’t prove it, it’s not obvious.”
This is a phrase that I use a lot and I first came across many years ago from someone I previously worked with. Since then it has stuck with me. When writing documents how often do we assume that the reader will know what we mean or understand that just because we know something is…