Great series of intro training…Alteryx for Excel Users. I recommend this for anyone new to Analytics Automation from the Excel/Business Analyst world.
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10-year-old grading software leverages deep learning algorithms to “compare notes” with human teachers’ scores, suggestions, and comments. An engineer involved in the project compared its capabilities to those of AlphaGo, the record-breaking AI Go player developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind.
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/28/chinese-schools-are-testing-ai-that-grades-papers-almost-as-well-as-teachers/
Too much data and not enough analysts. This article does an excellent job describing the latent power of Analytics, and the potential of citizen data scientists. All-in-all, a good way to kickoff this month’s focus on Analytical Automation.https://hbr.org/2018/05/why-marketing-analytics-hasnt-lived-up-to-its-promise
The Drivers of Opioid Prescription Rates in England
This article by Chief Scientist Dan Putler explores the impact of data science on one of our most pressing social issues, the opioid epidemic, in a very accessible way. And the Alteryx Community contains a wealth of information for learning more about Predictive Analytics…more to come.
https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/The-Drivers-of-Opioid-Prescription-Rates-in-England/ba-p/135244
Statista offers a search engine for market data, surveys, and statistics via corporate subscriptions. But a certain amount of information is publicly available. Here’s an example of a search on Education in China. It yields a short overview of how education is structured in China, some interesting high-level stats on things like number of universities, number of enrolled students in public universities, etc. You can see the high level numbers on the main search results page, but clicking into details (here’s the ‘number of universities’ detail page) runs you into the paywall.
https://www.statista.com/topics/2090/education-in-china/