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Semantic Similarity Across Facebook Posts
In this post we will use modern Natural Language Processing techniques to find similar posts in a Facebook group.You have probably been in a situation where you want to post something in a Facebook group but you are not sure whether almost the same post already exists and is maybe just hiding on the next page.
Traveling The World in D3 - Part 3: Legend and Filtering
In the last part of the tutorial, we managed to interactively draw location points on the zoomed in country and added a tooltip linking directly to our content. One thing we are missing is an overview of what content is available for which countries without having to manually click through all the points available.
Traveling The World In D3 - Part 2: Points & Links
The Knoyd team is currently spread out all over the world (Chile, Peru and Austria) and I am living on the road for quite a while now. I had an idea to code up an interactive map for our travel blog and thought it would be nice to share with you how to do it yourself.
Traveling The World In D3 - Part 1: Making A Map
The Knoyd team is currently spread out all over the world (Chile, Peru and Austria) and I am living on the road for quite a while now. I had an idea to code up an interactive map for our travel blog and thought it would be nice to share with you how to do it yourself.
Data Science For Everyone
Gut feeling used to be the biggest asset of successful businessmen in the past. Nowadays, intuition still plays an important role, but with all the available knowledge and technologies, there has been a significant shift. One of the most important sources of a competitive advantage these days is data. Big Data is a hype and undoubtedly a bandwagon to jump on. But how?
Gotta Catch 'Em All, But Which One First?
For this blog post we decided to jump on the PokémonGO hype and add a bit of science into the craze. Our goal is to give you the optimal portfolio of Pokémon to train, so you can be as effective as possible against a wide variety of opponents. As each Pokémon has its strengths and weaknesses, we created clusters of Pokémon with similar characteristics and looked at the few selected ones allowing the player to compete against as many different enemies as possible.
ATTENTION Movie Fans! Learn How To Make The Most Of Your Geeky San-Francisco-Film-Locations Tour!
In this edition of the Knoyd-blog we will take a look at movie locations in San Francisco. Using the Google Places API and IMDb API we selected places in “The Golden City”, which every movie fan should visit, while they are in town.
Deep Learning On Sports Forum Discussions
For our latest blog, we took discussion comments from the Slovak sports community website sport.sk and fed them to our deep learning model. We wanted to see, whether we could teach a model to generate these comments automatically from all the past comments we had and if it was going to learn the structures and nuances used in them. Enjoy! (Article is both in Slovak and English).
One Week, Three capitals, Three Conferences
May was an eventful month. In the first two weeks, we were very excited to launch our data science bootcamp Basecamp! Now that the application process is open, all prospects can finally apply and set off on an adventurous journey to becoming qualified data scientists with us. What an exciting time! But that was just the beginning. In the second half of the month, we have visited three different European capitals to attend three conferences: Big Data Universe in Budapest, Big Data & Data Science Conference in Paris, and last but not least Pioneers Festival in Vienna.
FinAccel Disrupts Asian FinTech Space. We Helped ;-)
It always gives us great pleasure to see, when one of our clients gets recognition for the great work they are doing. It is even better, if they are enabling people from developing countries to do things, which were not possible only a little while ago. This is exactly what FinAccel is doing.
Lukas Guest-Lecturing @ IES, Prague And UMB, Banska Bystrica
Next week, Lukas is going to give last two from his lectures series on data science. First, on Tuesday, he will visit Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, from where he will move to Prague, on Thursday, this time to present data science to students of Institute of Economic Studies (Charles University).
Lukas Talks @ Charles University
Lukas talks tomorrow (Monday 25/4/2016) at Charles University in Prague about the importance of data in all areas of business today. Talks goes through the evolution of human productivity and points out the differences between data-driven and traditional approaches to solving a problem.
Lukas Lectures @ Masaryk University
Lukas speaks at the Faculty of Business Administration of Masaryk University in Brno tomorrow (19th April) at 16:30 on the importance of having data driven mindset.
Meet Knoyd at Pioneers Bratislava #4
On 18th April, Knoyd will participate at pitching competition which is part of Pioneers Bratislava. We will have 3 minutes to present our startup to jury and will compete against 5 other start-ups.