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  1. Regular expresssions tutorial
    Here’s an introduction to Python’s regex module. Alex Yang also provides common use cases and shows how to combine regex with Pandas to create flexible workflows.
  2. On-device deep learning for facial recognition
    The Apple Computer Vision Machine Learning Team explains the challenges they faced—and how they overcame them—in creating a low-latency, private deep learning inference for face detection in their Vision framework.
  3. Using Python for data analysis
    In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, Katharine Jarmul and Jeff Bleiel discuss wrangling data with Python’s libraries and packages.
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  4. Comparative audio analysis with Wavenet, MFCCs, UMAP, t-SNE, and PCA
    This post takes a look at an audio dataset in two dimensions, using algorithms such as NSynth, UMAP, t-SNE, MFCCs, and PCA, and shows how to implement them in Python using Librosa and TensorFlow.
  5. Data-driven in the media industry
    In this episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, David Hsieh, senior vice president of marketing at Qubole, sat down with John Slocum, vice president of MediaMath’s data management platform, to discuss DataOps in the media industry.

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6. Can an algorithm predict when you will die?
Stanford University researchers developed a neural network that can determine a patient’s chance of dying in the next three to 12 months, according to MIT Technology Review. The purpose is to more effectively deliver palliative care.
7. Docker for data science
Here’s a quick intro to Docker for data scientists.

Related resources:
Getting Started with Docker Learning Path (on the Safari learning platform)
Docker: Beyond the Basics (live online course on Safari, Jan 24-25)
Accelerating development velocity of production ML systems with Docker (session at Strata in San Jose)
8. Do you drive a Honda Accord?
“You are what you drive, as the saying goes, and researchers at Stanford have just taken that maxim to a new level.” Here’s how the car you drive can determine how you will vote.

4 este interesant. am avut o tentativa de a ma jca cu librosa pe micutul pi