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Data science has emerged as one of the most sought-after career paths in the digital age. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decisions , the demand for skilled data scientists continues to grow. For professionals and aspiring data experts, understanding the landscape of a career in data science is crucial. In this article, we will explore the opportunities, challenges, and essential skills needed for a successful career in this...
Since the dawn of the digital age, the amount of data available to businesses and organizations has risen enormously. With growing servers full of data, the demand for the skill to 1) build the required infrastructure and 2) understand and analyze complex datasets has increased greatly . In October 2012, Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil were advertising data science as “ The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century ” in the Harvard Business...
Big data is growing exponentially. The amount of data available to businesses and organizations is constantly growing, with experts projecting that the world will be generating data at a rate of 463 exabytes per day  by 2025. This means that the data landscape will become even more saturated and complex than it already is. That’s precisely why the demand for skilled data scientists who can help companies process and extract value from...
Among the variety of open source relational databases, PostgreSQL is probably one of the most popular due to its functional capacities. That is why it is frequently used among all the areas of work where databases are involved. In this article, we will go through connection and usage of PostgreSQL in R. R is an open source language for statistical and graphics data analysis providing scientists, statisticians, and academics powerful tools...
Accessing and analyzing media content is a fascinating part of data analytics. It allows to follow trends of public interest over time or to see how stories evolve (e.g.  newslens ). While many media outlets offer APIs, it is cumbersome to collect them individually. News API closes that gap and allows to search and retrieve live articles from all over the web.     In this tutorial we will retrieve the latest news...
Unless you've been living under a rock, you may be familiar with the data science field making waves in different industries. Maybe you saw it while scrolling aimlessly through Facebook, or you've actively trying to look for a job in the field. Either way, data science is an emerging field, making it one of the most sought after jobs in our century, and everyone knows about it. But with jobs comes a hiring process. With hiring comes...
Because of the rapid development of the field and the promising opportunities in the future, many people are interested in entering the world of data science right now. if you have no experience in the field or you are transitioning from a different background, finding your first job in the field of data science can be a daunting task, especially as competition is increasing. This blog gives you six tips to increase your chances of landing...
Overview Lately, I worked a lot with the Azure Cloud. Overall I have to say Azure offers a lot but is still not on the same level as its hardest competitors (AWS, Google). One thing that caught my eye is the compatibility of certain programming languages. Azure supports a few different languages (C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.) but the supported features for these languages differ a lot. I think Azure Cloud is really great for...
  Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a widely used supervised learning algorithm for classification and regression tasks. It is mostly exploited for classification problems. The points of different classes are separated by a hyperplane, and this hyperplane must be chosen in such a way that the distances from it to the nearest data points on each side should be maximal. Support Vector Machine has some advantages. The first one is that SVM works...
The first step to land a job as a data scientist is the same as in any other profession: create a compelling CV! Although there are more open positions in the field of data science  than ever before  it is important to have a strong and suitable CV in order to land the job you want. This post gives you nine tips in order to improve your chances to find the data science job you want. 1. Include achievements, not just jobs “I increased...
Use your extra time at home (and your data skills) for a good cause: Check out the  Kaggle  COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). This dataset is a resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and related...
Based on the public interest, media coverage and the general interest in the topic, data science is still on the rise. Google Trends is an excellent tool to analyse the fever curve of the public interest. The screenshot below shows the Google search traffic in the UK for Data Science and Machine Learning over the last 5 years. After years  with a strong rise in interest, the curve has flattened - but is still increasing. We analyze in this...