Hi all!

We’re in the midst of summer… So, if you’re going to hit the beach in Odessa around July 5, I invite you to mix business with pleasure, to take part in the upcoming ODS meetup and to visit a data bar hosted by Odessa’s ODS.ai team.

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And for now, check out the latest of our digest.

Articles

Distributed Deep Learning Pipelines with PySpark and Keras

An easy approach to data pipelining using PySpark and doing distributed deep learning with Keras.

18 Impressive Applications of Generative Adversarial Networks

This post offers a review of a large number of interesting applications of GANs to help you develop an intuition for the types of problems where GANs can be used and useful. It’s not an exhaustive list, but it does contain many example uses of GANs that have been in the media.

Time Series Forecasting with TensorFlow.js

In this article, you will learn how to pull stock prices from online API and perform predictions using Recurrent Neural Network & Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) with TensorFlow.js framework.

Initializing neural networks

Initialization can have a significant impact on convergence in training deep neural networks. Simple initialization schemes can accelerate training, but they require care to avoid common pitfalls. In this post, we’ll explain how to initialize neural network parameters effectively.

The Third Wave Data Scientist

A long-awaited update of the data science skill portfolio

16 OpenCV Functions to Start your Computer Vision journey

In this article, you will learn about OpenCV library and basic functions: Reading, Writing and Displaying Images, Changing Color Spaces, Resizing Images, Image Rotation, Image Translation, Simple Image Thresholding, Adaptive Thresholding, Image Segmentation (Watershed Algorithm), Bitwise Operations, Edge Detection, Image Filtering, Image Contours, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF), Feature Matching, Face Detection.

A Hands-On Introduction to Deep Q-Learning using OpenAI Gym in Python

This article will help you to take your first steps into the world of deep reinforcement learning. We’ll use one of the most popular algorithms in RL, deep Q-learning, to understand how deep RL works. We will implement all learnt in an awesome case study using Python.

A practical guide to Deep Learning in 6 months

This post offers a detailed roadmap to how you can learn Deep Learning well enough to get a Deep Learning internship as well as a full-time job within 6 months. This post is practical, result oriented and follows a top-down approach. It is aimed for beginners strapped for time, as well as for intermediate practitioners.

Deep learning: the final frontier for signal processing and time series analysis?

In this article, the author demonstrates a few areas where signals or time series are vital, after which he briefly reviews classical approaches and moves on to his experience with applying deep learning for biosignal analysis in Mawi Solutions and for algorithmic trading.

TensorFlow Graphics

TensorFlow Graphics is one of the latest additions to TensorFlow, which is expected to enable research in the intersection of deep learning and computer graphics.

Text Preprocessing in Python: Steps, Tools, and Examples

In this article, you will learn the basic steps of text preprocessing. These steps are needed for transferring text from human language to machine-readable format for further processing. You will also learn about text preprocessing tools.

The Best and Most Current of Modern Natural Language Processing

A useful collection of resources to catch up on the latest trends in natural language processing. In addition to selected research papers, this article includes links to introductory posts, recommended blogs, online courses, and books.

Cheatsheets

Data Science Cheatsheets:

- Artificial Intelligence

- Big Data Analytics

- Data Mining

- Data Science

- Data Visualization

- Deep Learning

- Machine Learning

- etc…

Artificial Intelligence cheatsheets for Stanford’s CS 221

This repository sums up all the important stuff covered in Stanford’s CS 221 Artificial Intelligence course and includes:

- Cheatsheets for each field of artificial intelligence.

- All elements of the above combined in the ultimate compilation of concepts to have at hand all the time.

Video

Deep Learning Boot Camp

Video recordings of presentations from Deep Learning Boot Camp, which was held from 28 to 31 May in Berkeley.

Projects

ICLR 2019 posters

For those who weren’t at ICLR and want to browse the papers that were presented there, this is for you; it lets you check out many of the posters from the official ICLR poster session. In the future, founders plan to publish poster sessions from other top machine learning conferences too.

GraphPipe

GraphPipe is a protocol and collection of software designed to simplify machine learning model deployment and to decouple it from framework-specific model implementations.

Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry

A curated list of applied machine learning and data science notebooks and libraries across different industries.

Books

AUTOML: METHODS, SYSTEMS, CHALLENGES

This open access book presents the first comprehensive overview of general methods in Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), collects descriptions of existing systems based on these methods, and discusses the first series of international challenges of AutoML systems.

Conferences

Looking forward to ODS.ai Odessa Meetup & Data Bar taking place July 5in Odessa. Join the first informal meetup community on Open Data Science in the Odessa region. Lots of networking and heated discussion on the upcoming EECVC conference are guaranteed. The participation is free, but registration is required.