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Published inFeb 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781805120506
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Leondra R. Gonzalez
Leondra R. Gonzalez
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Leondra R. Gonzalez

Leondra R. Gonzalez is a data scientist at Microsoft and Chief Data Officer for tech startup CulTRUE, with 10 years of experience in tech, entertainment, and advertising. During her academic career, she has completed educational opportunities with Google, Amazon, NBC, and AT&T.
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Aaren Stubberfield
Aaren Stubberfield
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Aaren Stubberfield

Aaren Stubberfield is a senior data scientist for Microsoft's digital advertising business and the author of three popular courses on Datacamp. He graduated with an MS in Predictive Analytics and has over 10 years of experience in various data science and analytical roles focused on finding insights for business-related questions.
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In this comprehensive exploration of DL, we embarked on a journey through the intricate landscapes of NNs, optimization algorithms, and fundamental concepts that underpin this transformative field. We began our voyage by deciphering NN fundamentals, understanding the building blocks of DL, and uncovering the power of activation functions, weight initialization, and embeddings. As we delved deeper, we navigated the seas of optimization, unraveling the intricacies of gradient descent, learning rates, and various optimization algorithms that guide the training of NNs. We also shed light on the vanishing and exploding gradient problems, which are crucial challenges to overcome in the pursuit of effective training.

Our odyssey continued with a tour of common network architectures, from CNNs mastering image analysis to RNNs and LSTMs excelling in sequential data tasks. We encountered the creative minds behind GANs, explored the power of transformers in NLU, and marveled at the...

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Cracking the Data Science Interview
Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805120506

Authors (2)

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Leondra R. Gonzalez

Leondra R. Gonzalez is a data scientist at Microsoft and Chief Data Officer for tech startup CulTRUE, with 10 years of experience in tech, entertainment, and advertising. During her academic career, she has completed educational opportunities with Google, Amazon, NBC, and AT&T.
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Aaren Stubberfield

Aaren Stubberfield is a senior data scientist for Microsoft's digital advertising business and the author of three popular courses on Datacamp. He graduated with an MS in Predictive Analytics and has over 10 years of experience in various data science and analytical roles focused on finding insights for business-related questions.
Read more about Aaren Stubberfield