29 Data Science & Geospatial Articles from March 2023

Smaller, simpler neural network models are always more suitable for real-world applications

“Russia has expressed its willingness to target space assets, including commercial communications systems, adding to the U.S. urgency of developing warfighting tactics.”

US vs China—a video about the race to launch the next generation of space telescopes

China is preparing to launch its first satellites for a national low Earth orbit broadband megaconstellation to challenge SpaceX’s Starlink

Pentagon Prepares for Space Warfare as Potential Threats From China, Russia Grow

“The ideal size and intricacy of neural networks remain a matter of debate in the AI community, raising the question: Does neural network complexity matter?”

Remote sensing companies try to capture bigger piece of satellite imaging market

What data scientists need to know about machine learning

A list of free data science courses—from web scraping, statistics/probability, data analytics, SQL to business intelligence

The value of predictive models — cartography when data is very scarce

Quantum computers are a security threat before they even exist thanks to the encryption-breaking threats it posses

Space Force Wants $60 Million for Ultra-Quick Satellite Launches—with just 24 hour notice  

“The era of small satellites in Low-Earth Orbit is upon us”: Satellite manufacturers look to benefit from a multi-orbit future

China launches second classified high resolution remote sensing satellite

China’s secret naval base in Cambodia, through satellite imagery

Four machine learning trends to watch in 2023

Valuable GitHub repositories for data engineering

OpenAI’s price cut is “a warning sign that this may be a business with few producers"

“The launch of ChatGPT & Whisper APIs is expected to have a profound impact on the community of developers”

Documents detail 65-year effort to monitor an increasingly crowded orbital environment: A report on the US space surveillance network

Chinese research institutes are working to construct a quantum communications network using satellites in low and medium-to-high Earth orbits

The paradox that explains why “too much aggregation of data can become useless and start to introduce bias”

31 Generative AI Tools for text, images, & more with descriptions

A Chinese satellite launched in 2018 has been inspecting other nations' spacecraft high above Earth in geostationary orbit

Debating the rules of a conflict in orbit

Data Cleaning with Python Cheat Sheet

Diving into the world of quantum machine learning by exploring an advanced project utilizing a sample dataset

A systematic approach to retraining deep-learning artificial intelligence algorithms to deal with different situations

The difference between the roles of questions versus decisions in data science