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Book Review: Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's "The Second Machine Age"

Andrew McAffee and Erik Brynjolfsson begin their book The Second Machine Age with a simple question: what innovation has had the greatest impact on human history?

Article Series: Getting a Handle on Data Science as a Software Developer

Software developers and managers are realizing that they need data science among their skills, to be able to tackle pressing problems. In this series, field experts provide guidance to help us navigate among the available data analysis options. They explore ways of understanding where data science is needed and where it’s not, and how to turn it into an asset.

Solving Business Problems with Data Science

Enterprises are increasingly realising that many of their most pressing business problems could be tackled with the application of a little data science. This article, the first in a series, looks at the foundations of a successful business-orientated data science project.

The InfoQ Podcast: Cathy O'Neil on Pernicious Machine Learning Algorithms and How to Audit Them

In this week's podcast InfoQ’s editor-in-chief Charles Humble talks to Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil.  Topics discussed include her book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” predictive policing models, the teacher value added model, approaches to auditing algorithms and whether government regulation of the field is needed.

Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction

“Big Data has plenty of evangelists, but I’m not one of them,” writes Cathy O’Neil, a blogger (mathsbabe.org) and former quantitative analyst at the hedge fund DE Shaw who became sufficiently disillusioned with her hedge fund modelling that she joined the Occupy movement.

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Interview with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on Deep Learning