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Articles, nouvelles et annonces

Outil MLOps ou Pokémon ?
Les outils dans le domaine du Machine Learning se multiplient... Saurez-vous faire la différence entre le nom d'un outil MLOps et un Pokémon ?

Le CHUM se tourne vers l’intelligence artificielle
En partenariat avec la start-up montréalaise en intelligence artificielle My Intelligent Machines, le CHUM développe une solution de veille pour filtrer la masse d’informations scientifiques liées à la COVID. L’objectif est de réduire le temps passé à éplucher les quelque 2000 articles scientifiques publiés chaque semaine et, surtout, d’en établir la qualité.

Google Research: "Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work": Data Cascades in High-Stakes AI
We define, identify, and present empirical evidence on Data Cascades---compounding events causing negative, downstream effects from data issues---triggered by conventional AI/ML practices that undervalue data quality.

Awesome R Shiny
A curated list of resources for R Shiny.

What your data team is using: the analytics stack
Since Snowflake broke the internet with a checks notes $80B market cap, everyone – in tech, finance, and misc. industries alike – have been paying closer attention to the analytics stack. And they have questions:
- What are these data analysts using?
- What is this “analytics engineer” title that keeps popping up?
- Why would you use Snowflake over BigQuery or Redshift?
- What does Segment do? And what is Fivetran?
- What happened to Looker, and what’s dbt?

Événements

EY 2021 Better Working World Data Challenge
Wednesday 24 March 2021
Calling all university students and early career data scientists – get ready for the 2021 Better Working World Data Challenge. Put your skills to the test and show us how the power of data and science can improve the way we respond to global issues. This year’s challenge gives students and early career data scientists worldwide a chance to use their data science skills to make a real-world impact and improve bushfire management.
The Challenge is open from 24 March until 15 June 2021 and you can join at any time.

MLOps: From Model-centric to Data-centric AI
Wednesday 24 March 2021 @ 13:00
In this 1-hour event, Dr. Andrew Ng will be sharing the skills he sees as fundamental to the next generation of machine learning practitioners. A Q&A will follow after Andrew's presentation.

Data 101 Workshop
Tuesday 30 March 2021 @ 18:15
Get an intro to Data Analytics with our free beginner-friendly workshop! Through an instructor-led exercise, you’ll dabble with the building blocks of data such as spreadsheets, SQL, and charts. By the end of the workshop, you will have explored a cool dataset and developed a mini data report!

Developing Data Democratization in Government
Thursday 08 April 2021 @ 15:00
Join Alex Scriven, a Senior Data Scientist from the New South Wales Government in Sydney, Australia as he breaks down what data democratization means in a government environment. He will also provide specific, actionable best practices for growing data democratization in government and outline some interesting case studies for what can happen when democratization in government begins to take hold.