While Model Trains

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The AI Hierarchy of Needs

Monica Rogati

"Think of AI as the top of a pyramid of needs. Yes, self-actualization (AI) is great, but you first need food, water and shelter (data literacy, collection and infrastructure)."

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Unit Testing in Data Science

Jason Ash

A practical example of unit testing a function used to clean data before analysis.

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Understanding the beta distribution (using baseball statistics)

David Robinson

"The beta distribution is best for representing a probabilistic distribution of probabilities- the case where we don’t know what a probability is in advance, but we have some reasonable guesses."

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