Mathematical Olympiads are popular among high school students. However, there is nothing similar for college students, except maybe IMC. Even IMC is not popular. It focuses mostly on the same kind of problems as high school Olympiads, and you can not participate if you are over 23 years old. In addition, it is organized by country, as opposed to globally, thus favoring countries with a large population. Topics such as…

The list below is a (non-comprehensive) selection of what I believe should be taught first, in data science classes, based on 30 years of business experience. This is a follow up to my article Why logistic regression should be taught last.

I am not sure whether these topics below are even discussed in data camps or college…

Here is our selection of featured articles and resources posted in the last few days.

• New Book: Principles of Database Management 
• Competition: Explaining black box machine learning models …

With a data analysis plan, you know what you’re going to do when you actually sit down to do the analysis of the data you’ve gathered. It’s a vitally important thing for you to have, as it will guide how you’re going to collect your data. After all, it’s very difficult to add in new variables afterward.

For that reason, you want to make sure you’ve created your plan beforehand so that you can be sure that you’re asking all the questions you need to and you know what you’re going to…

Here is our selection of featured articles and resources posted in the last few days:

• Machine Learning and Its Algorithms to Know – MLAlgos
• A quick introduction to PyMC3 and Bayesian models…