In the news
The Brutal Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
Silicon Valley makes billions of dollars peddling personal information, supported by an ecosystem of bit players. One of them, an upstart called HiQ, is going up against LinkedIn in a battle for your lucrative professional identity.
Snips lets you build your own voice assistant to embed into your devices
French startup Snips is now helping you build a custom voice assistant for your device. Snips doesn’t use Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service or Google Assistant SDK — the company is building its own voice assistant so that you can embed it on your devices.
AWS unveils Amazon ML Solutions Lab
Amazon Web Services just unveiled the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, a consulting program that pairs Amazon machine learning experts with customers looking to build solutions in AI.
Sharing knowledge
Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks. Part I: Intuition.
A few weeks ago, Geoffrey Hinton and his team published two papers that introduced a completely new type of neural network based on so-called "capsules". This article explains why this new architecture is so important, as well as the intuition behind it.
An On-device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection
Apple started using deep learning for face detection in iOS 10. This article describes the face detection algorithm developed by Apple and discusses the main challenges addressed.
Introducing Data Science for Good Events on Kaggle
Kaggle is launching a program to enable the community of data scientists to make significant contributions to tough social problems.
Data for thought & fun stuff
This Google Data Viz Is So Meta, You Can’t Look Away
What does an information designer with access to Google Trend data do? Make a data viz about data viz. Anna Vital's interactive graphic, called The Visualization Universe, uses 10,000 data points to show how different types of charts have varied in popularity over the past 12 months.
Based on your morals, a debate with a computer to expose you to other points of view
Collective Debate from the MIT Media Lab gauges your moral compass with a survey and then tries to “debate” with you about gender bias using counterpoints from the opposite side of the spectrum. The goal isn’t to be right. Instead, it’s to try to understand the other side.
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
A series of charts depicts the 'retail apocalypse', a phenomenon that has become so ingrained in the U.S. that it now has the distinction of its own Wikipedia entry.
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