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Updates from the Scottish Government’s Digital Dirtectorate — Read on blogs.gov.scot/digital/2019/01/24/analytical-exchange-programme-now-open-for-bids/

Here’s a video of a talk I did at DDD12, it’s more a functional demo of an idea really.  https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/DDD/DDD12-Developer-Day-2017/Markov-Trump-and-Counter-Radicalization

The head of the Department of Health’s National Data Guardian (NDG) has criticised the NHS for the deal it struck with Google’s DeepMind over sharing patient data. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39934316

…now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can do something even more complex: Read passages of text and answer questions about them. https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2017/05/04/microsoft-is-teaching-systems-to-read-answer-and-even-ask-questions/?wt.mc_id=71250_fb_promo&utm_source=m.facebook.com&utm_medium=referral#sm.0000wygsjczd2elcx9m27dj5znxaz

This is a collection of 10 great GitHub repositories focusing on IPython, TensorFlow, Theano and related topics, for data scientists. The last one is not on GitHub. http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/top-10-ipython-tutorials-for-data-science-and-machine-learning?utm_content=bufferef7f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

LONDON – You may not have heard of Crimson Hexagon, but the chances are it’s heard of you. http://uk.businessinsider.com/analytics-firm-crimson-hexagon-uses-social-media-to-predict-stock-movements-2017-4?r=US&IR=T

The island nation of Kiribati suspected that Marshalls 203 had violated its recently created no-fishing zone, but it didn’t have sufficient proof. That’s where Global Fishing Watch came in. http://uk.businessinsider.com/global-fishing-watch-catches-illegal-fishing-vessel-2016-11

In this podcast interview, I caught up with Anusua Trivedi, a Data Scientist on Microsoft’s ADS team, to get her take on the upward trajectory of AI and deep learning that we’re seeing in the industry today. http://insidebigdata.com/2017/04/13/interview-anusua-trivedi-data-scientist-microsofts-advanced-data-science-strategic-initiatives-team/?platform=hootsuite