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This article wasoriginally publishedon .cult by Nate Rosidi..cultis a Berlin-based community platform for developers. This article might just be the thing that can help clarify some of the key differences in these roles. Well be focusing on the differences between a data analyst and a data scientist. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A data analyst can be expected to be heavily involved in A/B testing too. At times, data analysts must be creative in answering business problems that lack direct forms of data....

Its one thing to know how youre doing against your metrics. Thats why, at Zapier, we use attribution to understand how customer actions result in certain business outcomes. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Im going to focus on three attribution methods here: first-touch, last-touch, and linear. There are plenty of others to choose from, but these are a great place to start. Did they first land on a blog post on your website?...

Another day, another problematic AI study. And no human can tell if any given human is lying. Nobody can tell when anybody is lying all of the time. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Thats a really weird statement. What exactly is accuracy? Base luck gives any system capable of choice a 50/50 chance. And,traditionally, thats about how well humans perform at guessing lies. Interestingly, they perform much better at guessing truths....

Among the various EVs currently on display at theLA Auto Show, theres one that definitely steals the show. Its glittery af and has a bubblegum pink interior. Its the life-size Barbie Extra Car. And, boy, is it extravagant! It’s free, every week, in your inbox. As such, it has an electric powertrain with 111hp and a 170km of range. But, dear Barbie lovers all over the world, can you actually buy it?...

Twitter launched itstopics featurealmost two years ago to group tweets under different interest categories. Its nice to see tweets or news on topics that I care about on my timeline. However, sometimes the social networks tagging goes horribly wrong. Not a dog!!? Were continuously improving our systems and appreciate feedback like this to help us get better. Sure, I get it. AI is not perfect, and it might have some glitches in identifying objects....

40% off TNW Conference! Lets start with bad news. Obviously thats a bad thing in a world where deepfakes are so easy to create. But it gets so much worse. The researchers are quick to caution against drawing too many conclusions from this data. But this particular research provides evidence to the contrary. From where were standing it makes perfect sense. More US citizens voted in the last election than any other in US history....

The next generation of legal highs could be discovered by AI. Scientists in Canada have developed a model that identifies future designer drugs before they even hit the market. But dont get too excited: the researchers arent planning to provide your next buzz. Instead, they want the cops to find it first. High times It wasnt easy introducing AI to the drug game. First, the neural connection needed a crash course in pharmacology....

Hard skills can include learning how to do things like typing, or bookkeeping, or learning a trade. However, when you talk about hard skills these days, that usually means understanding computers and technology. you oughta learn how to code. This package is no light skimming of the subject matter either. 40% off TNW Conference!

This contrasts with previous statements madein February 2020committing the government to building the full HS2 internet. It is a lot quicker to improve existing infrastructure than to build an entirely new system. HS2 was never just about quicker journey times. What other crucial issues would have been solved by HS2 that the new plan must now address? Capacity is the primary issue. The new plan will be useless if it doesnt make it possible to increase the number of possible journeys....

What do we know? Thespace station crew has already had to shelterin place as they passed near the debris cloud. Many anti-satellite weapons are missiles launched from the ground, like this U.S. ASM-135 ASAT. Whats an anti-satellite weapon? The one that Russia just tested is known as adirect ascent kinetic anti-satellite weapon. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Space agencies have beendeveloping and testing anti-satellite weaponssince the 1960s. Regardless of the cause, space debris is a serious problem....

Amazon blamed the move on Visas high processing fees, but conspiracy theorists suspect something bigger is afoot. Were Jeff Bezos andhis Sun Valley buddiesplotting a financial revolution? Did Amazon need to save some dough tocolonize the cosmos? 40% off TNW Conference! The decision is significant, however, in that it sets a precedent for many others to follow suit. Developments in Open Banking could allow Amazon to bypass card firms and take payments directly from customers....