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Word Embeddings Explainer

Peter Baumgartner

"Imagine if every word had an address you could look up in an address book. Now also imagine if words that shared meaning lived in the same neighborhood. This is a simplified metaphor for word embeddings.""

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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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Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Randy Au

"The act of cleaning data is the act of preferentially transforming data so that your chosen analysis algorithm produces interpretable results. That is also the act of data analysis."

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