Posts by Frank La Vigne

DataPoint Christmas in July or How Data Helps Charities

While Frank is playing with robots in Pittsburgh, Andy is packing boxes for “Christmas in July.” There, he reflects on how data is helping charities better help people. Mentioned in this *DataPoint*: Samaritan’s Purse, Operation Christmas Child, The Honduras Project, Prison Fellowship.

DataPoint Robots Need to Be Better than Humans Not Perfect

Frank, while at the Carnegie Science Museum in Pittsburgh, finds a robot to read his intro line and ponders what it takes for AI systems to be successful. They don’t need to be perfect: they need to be better than humans.

DataPoint Robots: Hollywood vs. Reality

Frank is at the Carnegie Science Museum in Pittsburgh admiring the robotics exhibit when he notices a stark contrast. The vision of robots that Hollywood created hasn’t quite translated to reality.

DataScienceDaily Competing In The Age Of AI, Bringing Data Analytics to the People, and Key Concepts in Data Science

Data Science Daily Show #18 (July 25, 2017) Show Notes @DeepLearn007 BCG : Competing In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence #AI #MachineLearning #BigData #Fintech #ML #tech https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/competing-in-age-artificial-intelligence.aspx Bringing Data Analytics to the People https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bringing-data-analytics-people-frank-la-vigne @KirkDBorne Artificial Intelligence – Understanding the Hype: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/artificial-intelligence-understanding-the-hype-daee0df04695 … #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #BigData #DataScience @gcosma1 Nice tutorial on training a recurrent neural network on language…

DataScienceDaily #17 Learn Stats from Columbia, Machine Learning Article Collection, and Happy Birthday, Andy!

Show Notes @ColumbiaVPTL Learn how #Statistics plays a central role in #DataScience Enroll now in a self pace course on ColumbiaX : http://bit.ly/2vSRZBp @KirkDBorne Great collection of #MachineLearning articles to learn about different #algorithms and classifiers: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/machine-learning/home … #DataScience #AI @DBaker007 3 Mistakes That Setup #DataScientists For Failure | @DataconomyMedia http://ow.ly/Harf30bFqOo #DataScience #DataViz #BigData @DeborahTannon #DataScience…