Data Salaries in 2021, Freelancing data, Activation functions
🗯 Quick update
Last month, O'Reilly released the 2021 Data/AI Salary Survey. It's a good insight into the most well-paid programming languages, tools, cloud providers, etc. Download it here.
To understand the Data Science/Data Engineering freelance market, I've been extracting data from Upwork, a website for people finding freelancers and for freelancers to find tasks. The goal is to understand a few things, such as the most sought-out skills, the highest/lowest paying jobs.
Remember to check the most popular Reddit posts this week on data-related boards. 👇
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- All about activation functions
- How to calculate time-weighted averages
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🔝 Most popular Reddit posts this week
r/DataScience
- It’s a sad day, spilled coffee on the ML bible (1088 upvotes; 154 replies)
- Just recently turned in my two weeks notice as an analyst (331 upvotes; 61 replies)
- Manager: Do you wish to give up on this and focus on simpler projects? Me: Okay. Manager: We don't have simpler projects. (233 upvotes; 54 replies)
- Women in data science/analytics? (223 upvotes; 197 replies)
- How to visualize decision tree (210 upvotes; 12 replies)
r/DataEngineering
- Please Critique my Resume: Data Analyst transitioning to Data Engineer (121 upvotes; 59 replies)
- What made you choose DE over DS? (83 upvotes; 74 replies)
- Your default tool for ETL (75 upvotes; 142 replies)
- Data engineering with python? (59 upvotes; 25 replies)
- Data quality metrics for data warehouses (or: KPIs for KPIs) (51 upvotes; 4 replies)
r/MachineLearning
- [R] Vision Transformers for Dense Prediction (494 upvotes; 6 replies)
- [R] Deepmind's weather forecasting model 'Nowcasting' provides high-accuracy short-term weather prediction and better than traditional models for both accuracy and usefulness. (340 upvotes; 35 replies)
- [D] Has the ResNet Hypothesis been debunked? (297 upvotes; 76 replies)
- [NEWS] Google Colab(Pro+) gives A100 GPU! (181 upvotes; 61 replies)
- [P] SpotML - Managed ML Training on cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances (184 upvotes; 51 replies)
r/LearnMachineLearning
- Still a work in progress but I trained an agent in Unity (ML-agent package) to drive an RC car through gates . I am planning to get it to control a real RC car . I have been told many times that I should not go thought the actual controller but I like making these little robots too much! (1370 upvotes; 52 replies)
- A direct comparison of kNN for different values of k (334 upvotes; 10 replies)
- We have created a FREE 12+ hour course 'Mathematics For Machine Learning' prepared by our team member Fabio Mardero (A Data Scientist)- Feel free to give your feedback (331 upvotes; 21 replies)
- I made an AI to predict the outcome of a PVP round in Teamfight Tactics (248 upvotes; 44 replies)
- LEGO Object Detection Dataset, Free For Anyone (140 upvotes; 7 replies)
r/AskStatistics
- I have an incredibly hard time knowing when to take the log of variables for regression analysis. Can someone please help me? (23 upvotes; 26 replies)
- Why do statistics on poverty in the UK show a higher rate of child poverty compared to adult poverty? (11 upvotes; 13 replies)
- How should I interpret this scatter plot? Is it just as simple as saying that there is a moderate positive linear relationship? (10 upvotes; 8 replies)
- Likert scale to t-test (8 upvotes; 3 replies)
- What is the appropriate measure of correlation to show these 2 users are the same person? (8 upvotes; 3 replies)
r/LatestInML
- Practical MLOps: Operationalizing Machine Learning Models ebook (14 upvotes; 0 replies)
- Learning or working with AI? Come join us, we are a Discord Community with close to 20 000 members! Ask questions, find teammates, share your projects, and much more! (12 upvotes; 4 replies)
- The 3 most interesting AI papers this month with video demos, short articles covering them, code, and paper reference! (5 upvotes; 0 replies)
- Teach Computers to Understand Videos and Text without Labeled Data - VideoClip (4 upvotes; 0 replies)
r/MLQuestions
- Neural Networks, Manifolds and Topology (17 upvotes; 2 replies)
- Is it correct to say Logistic regression is solved using MLE ? (10 upvotes; 4 replies)
- Dataset of Molecular Simulation Trajectories for ML studies (7 upvotes; 4 replies)
- Best open-source solution for finding duplicate images in a collection of ~15,000 images (7 upvotes; 5 replies)
- What type of domain shift exists in my data? (4 upvotes; 0 replies)
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