Distinguished Scientist, Compass. Professor at NYU. Songwriter. Interests: vin, vélo, harmonica, machine learning
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Ready for a glimpse into the future of work with modern AI?
@NYUStern Profs @FakeFoster Provost and @JoaoSedoc put a Data Science chatbot (ChatDS) through a detailed interview for a data science job during a recent live event.
youtube.com/watch?v=EIKa-9K2… #datascience #ai
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Interactive ML Strategy course with Foster Provost starting April 7 machinelearningmastery.com/i…
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Join our newest cohort on Driving Business Impact with Machine Learning led by NYU Professor Foster Provost 💻
@FakeFoster has led and co-led high impact ML projects at companies like @Verizon, @ATT, @Spotify and @Citi
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"Complex harmonies, captivating melodies, and poetic lyrics meld...to create a distinctive 'then is now' sound." -- Wonderful new music, catchy, a bit melancholy, full of life! Have a listen! Album art image from Melancholia IV, Caterina Provost-Smith Paintings
Progressive Rock for Data Scientists? Mean Reversion's first album is now available! meanreversionmusic.com/ Check it out! :-) #DataScience #music
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Music for #DataScientists? Music by Data Scientists? …What…?!
Introducing Mean Reversion, an NYC-based songwriting duo comprising of data scientist Foster Provost @FakeFoster and statistician Cliff Hurvich.
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I'll send an official notice of the single and the album later, but ... Yes!!
Over the last decade, I have often inflicted Mean Reversion's one-of-a-kind music on friends. My absolute favorite in their first album is now available for streaming as a single: smarturl.it/blessingofmybirt… @MeanRevMusic
Agreed. I normally have the students in my PhD seminar read it, and I've had students come back years later and tell me it is one of the papers they remembered the most.
A little-known paper explaining how the multiple comparisons problem underlies several important #datascience problems. This should be a fundamental paper in DS. link.springer.com/article/10…
Comprehensive data science case study focused on choosing peer-to-peer loan investments (think: machine learning for Lending Club) just published: bit.ly/2NZi8LC (incl. Jupyter notebooks--see the case).
Hope it's helpful for teaching and learning!
Matt Kirk has a machine learning book giveaway in connection with his new book on ML in Python - Check it out: bit.ly/2pTXaAF
Indeed. Started working on a causal chapter for V2 a while back, but the world needs a whole volume: Causal Data Science for Business... xitter.cf/ronnyk/status/78660390…
@FakeFoster told me V2 will have #abtest covered. Biggest miss in V1 xitter.cf/sinanaral/status/78660…
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WIN is back! Oct 2-3 @NYUStern. 18 invited speakers. Submit abstract by Aug 21. @sinanaral @digitalarun @FakeFoster winworkshop.net/win2015/subm… …
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.@FakeFoster: "Understanding Decisions Driven by #BigData" goo.gl/ql2K6P Keynote from #StrataHadoop Barcelona 2014
Mark your calendar! Mon Feb 2 8pm @FakeFoster & Cliff will play at the @NewYorkSWCircle at the Bitter End!
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Data Science for Business by @FakeFoster + @tomeff - What you need to know about data mining + data-analytic thinking oreil.ly/1yL1WRc
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Fantastic and very thought-provoking talk by @FakeFoster on using fine-grained behavior data for predictive analytics! #StrataHadoop
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The book on #datascience by @tomeff and @fakefoster is listed on Fortune's required reading list for MBAs! for.tn/1vmF48h
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#BigData Decisions: Analytics Management to Privacy-friendly Cloaking Devices #StrataHadoop Barcelona @fakefoster oreil.ly/1xiPNQc
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Just got @BigData_Journal's list of 5 Top-Read Articles, and it includes pieces by @tomeff and @edd! Also @FakeFoster and @claudia_perlich