Building an AI-based Chatbot in Python

Chatbots have become extremely popular in recent years and their use in the industry has skyrocketed. The chatbot market is projected to grow from $2.6 billion in 2019 to $9.4 billion by 2024. This really doesn't come as a surprise when you look at the immense benefits chatbots bring to businesses. According to a study by IBM, chatbots can reduce customer...

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How Data Visualization Can Help with Income Inequality

It's getting harder and harder to ignore big data. Over the past couple of years, we've all seen a spike in the way businesses and organizations have ramped up harvesting pertinent information from users and using them to make smarter business decisions. But big data isn't just for capitalistic purposes — it can also be utilized for social good.Nathan...

Apr 2020

Building a Rule-based Chatbot in Python

Chatbots have become extremely popular in recent years and their use in the industry has skyrocketed. They have found a strong foothold in almost every task that requires text-based public dealing. They have become so critical in the support industry, for example, that almost 25% of all customer service operations are expected to use them by 2020.In...

Apr 2020

A Beginner’s Guide to Chatbots

It took less than 24 hours of interaction with humans for an innocent, self-learning AI chatbot to turn into a chaotic, racist Nazi.In March 2016, Microsoft unveiled Tay; a twitter-based, friendly, self-learning chatbot modeled to behave like a teenage girl. The AI chatbot was supposed to be an experiment in “conversational understanding”, as described...

Apr 2020

COVID-19 predictions, Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Hippocratic Oath of a Data Scientist

COVID-19 related data sources are fairly easy to find. Libraries in R and Python make it super easy to come up with pretty visualizations, models, forecasts, insights and recommendations. I have seen recommendations in areas like economics, public policy, and healthcare policy from individuals who apparently have no background in any of these fields....

Mar 2020

Coronavirus merged data sources – daily updates

In an effort to help people stay informed and updated on Coronavirus (COVID-19), Data Science Dojo has decided to merge together several data sources of daily reports on the situation. This merged dataset includes not only the latest cases and death counts, but also the travel advisory levels and travel restrictions, by country. This will be updated...

Mar 2020

I have completed a Data Science Dojo Bootcamp

The opportunity to participate in Data Science Dojo’s: A Hands-on Introduction to Data Science bootcamp was a simple decision as I have been a consumer of bootcamps for several years and have found my success varies with them. In my prior self-paced learning, I found that there were concepts that I simply did not understand well, or perhaps was not...

Mar 2020

How Data Science Has Changed Cybersecurity

Data science brings a logical structure to unstructured data. Data scientists use machine or deep learning algorithms to compare normal and abnormal patterns. In cybersecurity, data science helps security teams distinguish between potentially malicious network traffic and safe traffic. Applications of data science in cybersecurity are relatively new....

Feb 2020

Data Science Dojo Announces New 3-Day Data Science Bootcamp and 2-Day IoT Training

Last July, Data Science Dojo (DSD) announced a new data science certificate program with University of New Mexico Continuing Education (UNMCE). Continuing with this partnership, DSD has announced two new trainings stemming off the certificate program; A Hands-on Introduction to Data Science and A Hands-on Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT). A...

Feb 2020

Machine Learning Will Revolutionize Demand Planning

What is Demand Planning?It is expensive to build products that don’t sell well - Businesses incur warehouse costs to store excess inventory, and they incur expenses each time they move or re-package inventory. Finally, they frequently need to dispose of old inventory as it becomes outdated or expired. With all these costs combined, it costs businesses...

Jan 2020