5 Reasons Why Prague Is the Next AI Hub
Prague is already recognized amongst important technological centres of the CEE region, and that is just the starting line.
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Book Review: ‘Fundamentals of Data Visualization‘ by Claus O. Wilke
A whole book about graphs? But why?! To begin with, let’s just forget for a moment that the book is full of beautiful charts that are a pleasure to look at. I have been working in Data Science for years now, and it is common…
Book Review: ‘How not to be wrong’ by Jordan Ellenberg
About the Author: Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a 2015 Guggenheim fellow. Author of a few books on number theory. He has written articles on mathematical topics in the New York Times, Washington Post,…
AI in Banking – 4 major pain points in the DACH region
by Barbora Janulíková, Business Development Manager Despite the common thrashing German, Austrian, and Swiss banks often get at conferences relevant to the topic; they do put a significant amount of effort into adopting AI for meaningful use cases. However, as with all…
Applied Data Science Research
How Profinit combines scientific research with applications in finance by Barbora Janulíková, Business Development Manager If you have been following Profinit for a while, you know that academic research is deeply encoded in our company‘s DNA. We only pick new colleagues…
Beyond Data-ism: Big Data and the Human Intuition
by Petr Hájek, Information Management Advisor What is intuition? The old ‘wisdom’ says that managers spend their budgets on data and analytics, but finally, they make decisions based mostly on their intuition. Intuition can be explained in many ways – some…
Tips for a Data Science job interview
1) Brush up on basic maths and statistical concepts You don´t want to stutter when asked about basic concepts such as ROC curves, logistic regression, etc. Can you explain the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning both to a child and…
What is Data Science? or How to explain data science to your grandma?
Despite being one of the most hyped-up job titles of the 21st century, explaining what a data scientist actually does so that your grandma would understand can often be challenging. There is still a vast proportion of the population out…
4 Facts about the Global Data Science Job Market
1. Employers are often looking for a unicorn data scientist Everyone working in the field is well aware that the skill set a data scientist brings to the job can vary widely depending on the context. A combination of statistical background, coding knowledge, and business…
Book Review: The Book of Why – J. Pearl
by Zdeněk Veselý, Data Scientist at Profinit Why the why? As a statistician or data scientist, I want to answer many why questions. • Why are these customers buying the product? • Why are these patients not getting better?…