The Cleveland Clinic is experimenting with Microsoft's HoloLens technology as a new way to teach medical students without having to use cadavers. Read the fu...
If, like me, you've ever had a sandwich from a dubious deli and then been laid up for days afterwards, you know that food poisoning is no trifling matter. In the past, local authorities would only ever learn of such public health issues if they get reported to the authorities by the victim (or the victim's doctor). But that misses the many cases of less serious illnesses that don't involve a doctor or hospital, or illnesses that simply aren't reported to the authorities. Now, the City of Chicago has found a new way of identifying sources of food poisoning: by...
In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.
JavaScript programmers like to use words like, “event-loop”, “non-blocking”, “callback”, “asynchronous”, “single-threaded” and “concurrency”. We say things l...
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When I introduce myself as a data scientist, I often get questions like “What’s the difference between that and machine learning?” or “Does that mean you work on artificial intelligence?” I’ve responded enough times that my answer easily qualifies for my “rule of three”:
We introduce a deep learning-based listing embedding method using a Siamese network for similar home recommendations at Zillow. Our embedding model utilizes both collaborative and content information, models complex interactions between attributes, and effectively handles cold-start items. We have demonstrated the strong performance of our embedding method in surfacing relevant homes to the users.
First is a startup from Durham, NC that’s using data science and machine learning to offer the kind of help real estate agents need. Its SaaS platform analyzes over 700 personal factors (such as demographics, income changes, purchasing behavior and life events) of every agent’s contact
Child protective agencies are haunted when they fail to save kids. Pittsburgh officials believe a new data analysis program is helping them make better judgment calls.
Automatically Categorizing Yelp Businesses n. tung, Software Engineer Sep 2, 2015 At Yelp, we use categories for businesses to help determine search results, improve search relevance, inform our users of...
Ever wished there was a way to know if your favorite Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor is currently available in a grocery store near you? Instacart’s machine learning team has built tools to figure that out!
Propeller makes it easy to stick to your treatment plan and helps you learn what may be causing your flare-ups, so you can have more symptom-free days.