Handpicked for your weekend Reading – 8th Dec 2017

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While you were away attending NIPS 2017 this week, a lot has been happening around you in the data science and machine learning space.

No worries! Here is a brief roundup of the best of what we published on the Datahub this week for your weekend reading.

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NIPS 2017 Highlights – Part 1

Watch out for more in this area in the coming weeks.

Expert in Focus

Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, on 20 lessons on bias in machine learning systems, Keynote at NIPS 2017

3 Things that happened this week in Data Science News

For a more comprehensive roundup of top news stories this week, check out our weekly news roundup post.  

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Aarthi Kumaraswamy

Managing Editor, Packt Hub. Former mainframes/DB2 programmer turned marketer/market researcher turned editor. I love learning, writing and tinkering when I am not busy running after my toddler. Wonder how algorithms would classify this!

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