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Tweet Wars: The Last Data Point

It has been two years since we have started Knoyd. We have helped quite a few companies using their data more efficiently and have learnt a lot during the process. It has also been two years since we published one of our very first blog posts, analysing tweets about Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  And since the new installment has hit theaters in December, we have decided to create a re-hash of this original blogpost.

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Behavioral Analysis of GitHub and StackOverflow Users

In this blog post, we will take a look at the activity on websites that became a significant part of development across all areas in, as well as, outside of Data Science: GitHub and StackOverflow. It doesn't matter where developers are from or what their specific focus is, everyone uses these websites.

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Scraping and Analysing Amazon Reviews

In this post we will show you how to scrape reviews from an amazon product page. This data can be used to create datasets for sentiment analysis or other educational or research purposes. If you sell products on Amazon it can even be useful to analyse the reviews to understand what customers like and dislike about your product. Let's dive in!

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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?

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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.

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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).

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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.

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