

Top 10 Stories



#1 White House comes out strong on ethics in data: whitehouse.gov

#2 Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion: firstmonday.org

#3 Data science fails at predicting the US election: kdnuggets.com

#4 Google teaches "AIs" to invent their own crypto and avoid eavesdropping: arstechnica.com

#5 The Rise of Deep Learning: medium.com

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#6 The Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge: synapse.org

#7 Microsoft's Tay: theverge.com

#8 William Stein is leaving academia to start a company around Sage: reddit.com

#9 DeepMind kicks butt at Go: theverge.com

#10 Elon Musk thinks we’re probably living in the Singularity: vox.com



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It's been an amazing year for Python and Data Science. It's time to look back at the major headlines and take stock in what we've done as a community.I've teamed up with the Partially Derivative podcast and we're running down the top 10 data science stories of 2016 in this joint episode.Links from the show: