Monthly Archives: January 2019

R

• Building Big Shiny Apps — A Workflow (1/2)
• 10 Tips for Choosing the Optimal Number of Clusters
• Using Word Similarity Graphs to Explore Themes in Text: A Tutorial
• An Rstudio Addin for Network Analysis and Visualization
• Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

Python

• PyDev of the Week: Lorena Mesa
• Rendering GPS traces

Interesting articles, projects and news

• Google-Chef verspricht mehr Transparenz bei künstlicher Intelligenz
• Kampf gegen Fake-News: YouTube empfiehlt keine Verschwörungstheorie-Videos mehr
• Penelope Platform – Tools and techniques for computational social science
• Künstliche Intelligenz: Überall in Europa entscheiden schon Algorithmen
• Schattenseiten der Digitalisierung
• AI Can Now Decode Words Directly from Brain Waves
• YouTube und Instagram: Erfolgreich mit Geschlechterklischees

R

• Free online #Rstats resources
• Text Mining, Networks and Visualization: Plebiscito Tweets
• Exploring the multiplication table with R

Python

• Tutorial: Time Series Analysis with Pandas
• Inverting Facial Recognition Models
• Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages: Open-sourcing enhanced LASER library
• PyDev of the Week: Nina Zakharenko
• A visual introduction to the Gap Statistics

Interesting articles, projects and news

• Facebook unterstützt Erforschung künstlicher Intelligenz in München
• Backing up Brazil’s internet so Bolsonaro can’t censor it
• Yes, “algorithms” can be biased. Here’s why
• How the government shutdown is flushing away federal cyber-talent
• Spotify data shows how music preferences change with latitude – The farther from the equator, the greater the seasonal swings.
• Stimme verrät Charakterzüge
• EU-Gremien einig: Mehr offene Daten für Künstliche Intelligenz und Startups
• Gig Economy bei Foodora und Deliveroo: Die Folgen der Arbeitsorganisation mit Apps
• Social media can predict what you’ll say, even if you don’t participate
• Your Worst Alexa Nightmares Are Coming True
• Initiative für übergreifenden KI-Campus in Berlin angeblich vorerst geplatzt

R

• How to combine Multiple ggplot Plots to make Publication-ready Plots
• Going Off the Map: Exploring purrr’s Other Functions
• ROC Curves
• RStudio Connect 1.7.0

Python

• Speed Up Your Python Program With Concurrency
• dtreeviz – A python library for decision tree visualization and model interpretation.
• Parsing semi-formatted text in python via textFSM

Interesting articles, projects and news

• Eine neue Form von KI?
• Algorithmen zur Frühdiagnose von mentalen Störungen
• Introduction to the A* Algorithm
• Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It
  Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content, where even a photo of an empty chair could cause big trouble.
• Beyond Cherry-Picking / The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use / Daten-Analysen: Brille schlimmer als Zeit am Smartphone, oder so, oder anders…
  The paper powerfully visualises that without pre-registering analysis plans beforehand, analytical bias can allow researchers to tell almost any story with powerful data resources.
• Bundestagskommission: “Vertrauenswürdige KI made in Germany” und eine “KI-Dividende für Beschäftigte”

Python

• Using The Pandas Category Data Type
• Moving to require Python 3

Interesting articles, projects and news

• Few people shared fake news in 2016 election, but seniors shared the most
• I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone. T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country.
• Datenhandel: Österreichische Post verkauft Partei-Affinität der Österreicher
• “KI-Landkarte” zeigt Deutschlands Forschungs-Hotspots
• Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users
• Court: Politicians who block citizens on social media violate 1st Amendment
• Alte Vorurteile schwinden – mit einer Ausnahme
• Missing Link: Der Schöne und die Influencerin – von KI, virtuellen Models, Schönheitswahn und Mode
• Alle Jahre wieder – Alphabet spart weiter Steuern in Milliardenhöhe
• Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities
• The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
• Updating: A Set of Bayesian Notes
• Guesstimate – a spreadsheet tool that helps you model and forecast uncertain quantities. Guesstimate’s interface is similar to other spreadsheet tools, such as Excel or Google Sheets.
• Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner

R

• Text classification with tidy data principles

Python

• SciPy 1.2.0
• Python Pandas: Tricks & Features You May Not Know

Interesting articles, projects and news

• 35C3: US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2020 – “die Angreifer werden wieder da sein”
• 35C3: Per Datenabfrage zum reißenden Amazon-Clickstream
• Trendforscher Horx: Künstliche Intelligenz wird überschätzt
• 35C3: Vom Erpressungstrojaner zur Phishing-KI
• Political radicals don’t evaluate their own errors—about anything
• Mining co. says first autonomous freight train network fully operational
• Word Association Study