"on a scale of 1 to 5 how happy are you"...just because you replace "unhappy" with 2 doesn't make it numeric data, any more than replacing it with "potato"
For structured data, the schema is important when the data is written. For unstructured data, the schema is important when the data is read. #kcdc#datascience
The "six degrees of separation" statement...turns out not to be a myth. Microsoft did a similar study with user accounts/email addresses and the number was 6.2. #kcdc#datascience
Standford Engineering released today a seminar about Transformers 🚀. The seminar - CS25, is run by Div Garg, Steven Feng, and Rylan Schaeffer and focuses on the following topics:
✅ How transformers work
✅ Types of transformers
✅ Applications of transformers in the fields of ML, NLP, CV, biology, etc.
Free in London this Saturday afternoon? Want to mosey around the British Academy and hear from a range of excellent speakers on many important subjects of our times?
I'm chairing a session on 'ChatGPT, AI, and the future' in the garden, 2-3pm, with Tim Gordon (Co-founder, Best Practice AI) and Hetan Shah (CEO, British Academy)
'Much consideration has been given to how machine learning is influencing our lives, and what it means for the near future. This panel will consider ChatGPT’s current influence in research, and how it might be a tool for copyright theft, content creation, knowledge-sharing or misinformation.
This panel of experts will critically examine whose voices are being heard in the discourse around AI, what choices we must make about how it is implemented, and which technologies are bringing genuine value to world of education and research.'
Datasci.social is a server for researchers & practitioners in human-centric data science, broadly defined, like network science, computational social science, geospatial data science:
This was a fascinating, illuminating, and enraging conversation with Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, and Professor Margaret Hellard, Deputy Director of the Burnet Institute, about why we're not collecting covid data, and why it matters. This one is really important, so please listen, and share.
RD:"Why aren't we collecting the data? Because they don't want to admit failure. They don't want to make it easy for me to tell you what the cost to GDP of this heroic approach to covid has been."
We are 133 people now (68 active), with increased growth in the past few weeks. Our server hosts a community for #DataScience, broadly defined. See below our place in the universe of servers.
Just four weeks unti our Health Hackathon on 17-18 June! Our number of attendees signed up has more than doubled in the last week. And even more challenges are being added each week.
Thanks to NHS Grampian and University of Aberdeen for sponsoring the event and to Robert Gordon University for participating too. Also thanks to ONE Tech Hub for hosting us! See you there!