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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.
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.
NBA: Data Reveals Who Makes The Real Difference
In the next blog of our Knoyd series, we are going to show one of the ways of measuring impact of NBA players on the game. Everyone knows that all-stars like LeBron James or Stephen Curry have tremendous impact and they show it in every game on the floor. However, very often role players need to step up and save the game. This analysis is dedicated especially to these players and how they can change the game by their performance. The cornerstone of this analysis is the basic correlation between players‘ impact and result of the game. The way, how impact of an individual player is computed, will be described later on.
Every Journey Begins With A Single Data Point
One of the exciting applications we got to work on recently is inspiration in travel. There are various kinds of travel people enjoy; travel for art, travel for nature, travel for history or travel for clubs. We all have our favourite kind. One of the very interesting problems for inspiration in travel is to determine what is an interesting thing to see in a particular place.
The Data Awakens
It has come. The most anticipated movie of this year was released and the Force has awakened. We have tracked the activity on Twitter before and after the release date to gain insight into the reactions of people and their feelings about the next episode of the most famous movie franchise in history.
Data Is The Way To Go
Everyone keeps talking about data; its great value, utility, and the many benefits it offers. However, to many people all those might just seem like abstract concepts. That's why we want to show you what data means in real life: data to help, data to increase efficiency, and sometimes data just to amuse. We point out use cases where data science helped someone to solve a unique problem or to solve a very old problem in a unique way. We will demonstrate that data can help individuals, communities, as well as corporations and governments. It's not a universal solution to everything, but it is right up there :)
We Are Knoyd
Knoyd is the result of our dreams and efforts and some hard work so far (and much more to come) and Knoyd is here now to help you know your data, as that’s exactly the key to success.