Social Data Science - Aalborg University

people: Want to learn data exploration in Python? Join me for a 2 half-days workshop next Tuesday and Wednesday CALDISS

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https://www.caldiss.aau.dk/arrangementer/vis-arrangement/exploratory-data-analysis-in-python.cid390718

AI & Incentives... very funny :)

Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild Reinforcement learning algorithms can break in surprising, counterintuitive ways. In this post we'll explore one failure mode, which is where you misspecify your reward function. At OpenAI, we've recently started using Universe, our software for measuring and training AI agents, to conduct new RL ex...

SDS proudly annouces:

Economists Daniel Hain and Roman Jurowetzki win the first IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM) “Big Data Analytics” Challenge with their Global Patent Explorer.

Check the tool: http://gpxp.org/

Read more: https://www.business.aau.dk/news/news+article/aau-researchers-win--big-data-analytics--challenge.cid382946

AAU researchers win “Big Data Analytics” Challenge Economists Daniel Hain and Roman Jurowetzki win the first IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM) “Big Data Analytics” Challenge with their Global Patent Explorer.

SDS Module 1 vs Module 3. Hope we can avoid the last stage.
By the way: for those of you starting with us I September, remember to join the Slack workgroup.

Natural Language Processing is one of the most exciting areas of machine learning today and increasingly used in many social science disciplines. Looking forward to diving into NLP and more in modules 2 and 3.
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Guess what? At SDS you'll learn R (and Python) and still get your 8 hours of sleep 💤 🛏

Amazing visual intro to Machine Lerarning!

A visual introduction to machine learning What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.