The 50 Best Free Datasets for Machine Learning - Gengo AI What are some open datasets for machine learning? We at Gengo decided to create the ultimate cheat sheet for high quality datasets. These range from the vast (looking at you, Kaggle) or the highly specific (data for self-driving cars). First, a couple of pointers to keep in mind when searching for datasets. A dataset shouldn’t be messy, because you don’t want to spend a lot of time cleaning data.A dataset shouldn’t have too many rows or columns, so it’s easy to work with.The cleaner the data, the better — cleaning a large data set can be very time consuming.There should be an interesting question that can be answered with the data. Let’s get to it! Dataset Finders Kaggle: A data science site that contains a variety of externally-contributed interesting datasets. UCI Machine Learning Repository: One of the oldest sources of datasets on the web, and a great first stop when looking for interesting datasets. General Datasets Public Government datasets Finance & Economics Images Sentiment Analysis
Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity Copyright © 2015 by the author(s). Published here under license by The Resilience Alliance. Go to the pdf version of this article The following is the established format for referencing this article: McAlpine, C. A., L. Perspective 1The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia, 2Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 3Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California Many ecologists and environmental scientists witnessing the scale of current environmental change are becoming increasingly alarmed about how humanity is pushing the boundaries of the Earth’s systems beyond sustainable levels. Key words: behavioral change; connectedness; innovative leadership; societal values; transformational change; transition management We thank Michael P. Amin, A., and J. Arnocky, S., M. Daly, H.
The Ordination Web Page The Psychology of Social Media: Why We Like, Comment, and Share Online What would happen if you were to “like” everything you saw on social media? The developer Rameet Chawla found out when he built a script that liked every photo that passed through his Instagram feed. He grew his followers by about 30 a dayHe got invited to more partiesHe got stopped on the street by people who recognized him from InstagramHe got message after message from friends encouraging him to post more. He said it was “almost like they were frustrated, like they were longing for something to like in return.” The likes, comments and posts we share on social media can often seem inconsequential, but they matter. What if we could understand the psychology of social media and use that knowledge to bring customers closer, give them more of what they want, and create better relationships? I had the supreme privilege of talking about just that topic at Mozcon, a super fun and crazy informative marketing conference put on by our friends at Moz. Social media biology: Dopamine and oxytocin
Jeffrey Sachs: ‘By separating nature from economics, we have walked blindly into tragedy’ | Global Development Professionals Network Recent news brings yet another example of hubris followed by crisis followed by tragedy. The hubris is our ongoing neglect of human-induced climate change, leading to climate disruptions around the world. One of the many climate crises currently under way is the mega-drought in São Paulo, Brazil. The recent tragedy is an epidemic of dengue fever in the city, as mosquitos breed in the makeshift water tanks that have bought in to maintain supply through the drought. Welcome to ‘the age of sustainable development’. São Paulo is just one of many such cascading disasters. But it happens that 2015 is a key year of decision for sustainable development. These are momentous decisions, yet still badly understood globally. We need a new way of thinking, one that tightly links the human-made world of economics and politics with the natural world of climate and biodiversity and with the designed world of 21st century technology.
Our World in Data Preserving Team Knowledge in the Gig Economy Do you remember your parents or grandparents staying in the same job for their entire lives? Or at least staying with the same company? Though it seems odd today, there was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for a person to begin a job with a company and retire from that same company decades later with the ubiquitous parting gift of a gold watch. Business teams work much differently now. Business moves far more rapidly than ever before, and the workforce is changing at a similar pace. In corporate America, up to 40 percent of employees are now contractors. Even for full-time “permanent” employees, the average tenure in a single company dropped to 4.2 years in 2016. What shared memory means to business teams It doesn’t matter how big your business is. Now, it’s easier than ever to forget completed work. Bypassing the chaos Meet Nicole Hanusek. Nicole created a series of business processes and templates in Evernote Business, which she and any of her team members can access from anywhere.
DYNAmic policy MIXes for Absolute Decoupling of Environmental Impact of EU Resource Use from Economic Growth (DYNAMIX) | Ecologic Institute: An International Think Tank for Environment and Development At the beginning of September 2012, a new European Union research project on resource efficiency started at Ecologic Institute. DYNAMIX will propose policy mixes that can shift the EU onto a pathway where its resource use and the associated environmental impacts decline in absolute terms while the economy continues to thrive. This FP7 research project, led by Ecologic Institute, combines quantitative modeling and qualitative assessments to provide EU and national policy-makers with tangible support towards implementing resource efficiency policies. The project website is now online. Background Increasing resource efficiency is a key element of several major EU strategies, above all the "Europe 2020 Strategy" and the "Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe" – a first step towards concrete action under the flagship initiative "Resource-efficient Europe". The EU is still a long way from absolute decoupling despite some recent successes in improving the material efficiency of production.
Conscious Collaboration- Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy | World Business Executive Coach Summit 2015 The book Reinventing Organizations’ has sparked huge interest in self-organisation beyond hierarchy. Of the many options available, how do we choose those which will work for our clients and their organisations? This session contextualises the shift beyond hierarchy and provides a map to help you make conscious choices to navigate this complex transition. Our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous 21st century requires new ways of organising and working together - how do we self-organise collaboratively beyond hierarchy? But if we throw out the familiar structures of conventional hierarchy, can we just work things out as we go along? How do we avoid slipping into the ‘tyranny of structurelessness’ or being dominated by a shadow hierarchy behind what looks like a flat structure? The Conscious Collaboration portfolio helps you understand the choices involved in the shift towards self-organisation and equips you with a set of tools and skills to make the transition.