Geo-visualizations are a powerful tool to understand the world. Thanks to Michael Cooper I came across this article. The visualization had been created by  JimWillFixIt69, on a reddit.com forum and is very popular, mentioned and linked from many other sites. Here it is: It shows, for each European Country, which is the second biggest Nationality …
I was inspired by this article, which tells the story of Andrew Ng‘s father Ronald, with respect to online self-tuition. Well, Ronald, now almost 74, has successfully completed 146 online courses since 2012. Even before reading the article, I asked myself: How many online courses have I completed since May 2015, the point in time …
Datacamp has published this beautiful infographics on how to become a Data Scientist and what are the skill that compose this mythical professional figure. It is clear that the professions that make up the field of Data Science are many and diverse, however fundamentally they have made a very good summary. It reminds me of …
I have come across these basic truths of statistics several times in my learning experience. Nevertheless, I keep reading press articles and hearing news reports where they are ignored, to the purpose of telling stories that are all but true. The idea crossed my mind already several times, but today I was reading a post …
This post is a slight deviation from the usual Data Science learning path, but I think that there may be something useful also for those wanting to include a bit of interaction in their Jupyter Notebooks. I have started teaching some python to my 14 years old son (on his request), and I decided to start by …
I just went through the experience of completing the Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization on Coursera. The last course of this specialization was the Capstone project, which consists basically in learning about a new subject, Natural Language Processing (or NLP in short) and producing a Shiny application hosted on Shinyapps.io that predicts the next word a …
Here it comes, summertime. Last year I was particularly active with this Blog and my quest to learn as much as possible about Data Science, Python, R etc. Many MOOCs and books later, and with only the Capstone project that separates me from achieving the Data Science Specialization, I have the need to slow down …
I almost did not notice, but last 15th May was my site’s become one year old! Wow! In one year, this is the basic traffic data: Number of visitors as of now : 3730 Number of visits: 26085 My free hosting profile does not allow me to know from where you visit, I choose to …
Yesterday morning, while driving to work I was listening to the Belgian radio and they come up with the news about a test on a web site, designed and implemented by two swedish researchers, that would reveal to everybody the probability of dying in the next five years. The test is available at the Ubble …
Professor Jean-Pierre Malle from in his “Datascience et Analyse situationnelle : dans les coulisses du Big Data” MOOC (Behind the scenes of Big Data), a course that can be found on the IONIS platform, made clear that the next big thing in IT is Bigdata. (The course is in French). It is not a -strictly …