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All human achievements—past, present and future—have the hand of an amazing data team behind the scenes, from man’s first flight, to our first step on the moon, and now self-driving cars and finding a cure for cancer.
Let’s deep dive into some of these amazing feats achieved by the humans of data! In this issue, we bring to you the incredible, true story of man’s first flight.
How the Wright Brothers conquered the skies with data
Ayswarrya G
“Not within a thousand years would man ever fly.”
That’s what Wilbur Wright said when their experiments to achieve controlled flight kept failing. How did the Wright brothers achieve the impossible?
Here’s a hint—data had a large role to play in helping humans fly.
Our top reads for you
Research engineering FAQs
Akihiro Matsukawa
ML research engineer as a job is a mystery. While some broadly agree that it needs software engineering and machine learning skills, most are unclear about the role and what it takes to become one.
Read this article and get answers to questions like “what does a research engineer do?” and “what should I study?”
Read more here.
Announcing rLandsat, an R package for Landsat 8 data
Christine Garcia
Landsat is one of the best sources of free satellite data today. Managed by NASA and the United States Geological Survey, the Landsat satellites have been capturing multi-spectral imagery for over 40 years.
However, accessing data from these amazing satellites can be a pain. But fret not, for our data team has built an open-source R package (called rLandsat) to help users find, request and download Landsat 8 data.
And guess what? This package has been accepted by CRAN! 😱🎉
Read more here.
How retailers use AI to innovate customer experience and enhance operations
AltexSoft
Did you know that poor checkout experience and long lines are the third highest reason shoppers skip the line and shop in a different place?
Read on to find out how retailers are using AI to reimagine how we shop.
Read more here.
Your learning corner
[Free Ebook] Graph algorithms: Practical examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j
Whether you are building dynamic network models or forecasting real-world behavior, this book is all the ammo you need! It teaches you how to detect bottlenecks, issues and vulnerabilities in your graph algorithms and improve machine learning predictions.
This ebook is a good read for all developers and engineers working with graph databases.
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Behind the scenes
Data mining at NASA to teaching data science at George Mason University
Data Science Weekly
Every edition of the Humans of Data newsletter brings to you the story of a fellow human of data. This edition’s story is that Kirk Borne, one of the most frequently cited data science influencers in the world. As an astrophysicist, Borne began his career focusing on data systems for projects at NASA, which paved the way to a career in data science.
Intrigued? As fellow humans of data, we surely are!
Read his story here.
Save the dates
The Fifth Elephant | July 25-26, 2019 | NIMHANS, Bengaluru
Attend the eighth edition of one of the best data conferences happening in India. A conference for practitioners, by practitioners.
Join over 1500 fellow humans of data and listen to the best data science influencers from Simpl, Flipkart, Scribble Data, Altnews, and more!
Register here and get 10% discount.
P.S. This is your chance to catch up with the Atlan team in Bengaluru! Do stop by to say hi 👋.
Demystifying Data Science | July 30-31, 2019 | 100% Online
Attend the third annual edition of this event for aspiring data scientists, data-focused business leaders and practitioners.
Last year, over 18,000 people registered from more than 142 countries. The speakers lined up for this year include top data science influencers from IBM, Cloudera, KPMG, Teradata, Analytics Vidhya, and more!
Register here.
Phew! You’re all caught up. Now go solve some problems. 😁
