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

A video about the race to launch the next gen of space telescopes

15 Data Science Articles from Jan 2023

Exploring data science use cases with the GPT-3 API using Python

ChatGPT and the goal of eliminating some of the rote work involved in writing code

Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?

An integrated approach of remote sensing and geospatial analysis for the impacts of climate change

Can ChatGPT provide answers to data science questions to the same standard of humans?

A fresh look at data science from the author of a new textbook on the subject

The “bounty” of geospatial data is outstripping the ability to process it. The answer says the NGA is artificial intelligence

23 Generative AI tools to create text/image/video

A few key trends that are likely to shape the development of AI in the coming year

Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race

An argument for deep learning limitations based on generalization

NGA is working with small drones to help rescue operations resulting from wildfire & other disasters

Why Most Introductory Examples of Bayesian Statistics Misrepresent It

How China is building a parallel generative AI universe

The NGA usually monitors Iranian protests & North Korean missiles. It’s now helping find hurricane victims, too

25 Data Science Articles from Dec 2022

A Pandas DataFrame cheatsheet for exploratory analysis & data manipulation 

Five ways that data roles will change in 2023 related to Chief Data Officers

AI & machine learning are “top of mind for the Army, especially as it pertains to protecting its assets in space”

10 weird things about SpaceX's more than 3,000 Starlink satellites (and that number keeps growing)

Initial specific steps toward launching a machine learning project 

Adobe has just released a remarkable and free AI-powered enhanced speech tool

The four biggest trends they expect to shape the AI landscape in 2023

Synthetic data applications, limitations & vulnerabilities

A guide to the roles and responsibilities on a data migration team

A tech journalist goes back to high school to find out what OpenAI’s Chatbot can pass AP Lit

The current limitations of AI’s military impact & where tech could one day spark “revolutionary changes” 

How Bayesian network structure learning can incorporate missing data 

The NGA has plans to develop an overarching cloud-based enterprise management system capable of automating its data collection and dissemination and ultimately replacing the overall Foundation GEOINT storage and management process 

A new paper on “Localization and classification of space objects using EfficientDet detector for space situational awareness”

Potential uses of ChatGPT for data scientists

McKinsey on the state of AI since the research firm began tracking it five years ago

A new collaborative effort is designed to “support interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen mapping services worldwide”

Different kinds of geospatial specialists are needed in different situations

China outpaces efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to harness power of publicly available data 

The Space Dev Agency’s first major satellite launch has been delayed again

A look under the hood: How does ChatGPT work internally? 

An AI method from MIT and IBM research “improves the training and inference performance of deep learning models on large graphs”

Some basics about the new AI called ChatGPT 

Why Neural Network explainability is important, how to do it, & the tools for it

“The FCC approved part of SpaceX’s application for the second generation of the Starlink constellation, which will allow SpaceX to deploy up to 7,500 satellites”

27 Data Science Articles from June 2022

The priorities of the first-ever assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration (& top acquisition executive for the Space Force)

Google Cloud expands Earth Engine to help businesses and governments

Comparing C++ to Python (with examples)

Can synthetic data help AI get quicker results —and be less discriminatory? Here comes the fake data

OpenAI says its latest AI has learned to play Minecraft

US intelligence artificial intelligence use is booming but it's not the secret weapon you might imagine

“A major challenge facing the DoD at the moment is disparate data, spread across many different databases and stakeholders. Future winners will be those that can take all the data into a single location and make sense of it.”

“AI solutions for defense are much more mundane and focused on improving decision-making for humans” than many would imagine”

Space 2.0: “The shape of space is expanding beyond traditional defense & aerospace to an expansive range of practical & profitable applications.” A look at the 2022 trends

China launches first crewless drone carrier—experts suggest that it could also be used as a military vessel  

Space-based assets aren’t immune to cyberattacks: Russia's attack on Viasat satellites exposed how vulnerable space-based assets are and the potential for spillover damage

Which is better for data science visualization—R or Python? (hint: it all depends on the nature of the problem to be solved) 

Overcoming overfitting a model in machine learning

How space debris threatens modern life  

Ranking Pandas for Python, Dask & Datatable based on their performance

Snowflake ups support for python Build and offers Native Application Framework to run applications inside the Snowflake Data Cloud platform

Pentagon’s new AI and data chief waited days just for an ID card: ‘Let me say honestly that the bureaucracy is real’

The basic process of handling satellite image data for geospatial deep learning

6 Types of “feature importance” — a useful (and yet slippery) machine learning concept

Google Cloud’s new machine learning tools for its Vertex AI are now making their debut after being featured at the recent Applied ML Summit

The remarkable story of deploying the satellite communication system Starlink in Ukraine

Creating a simple, interactive dashboard with Panel & Python

Wanted: artificial intelligence & machine autonomy algorithms for military command and control

A visual breakdown of threats to space-based services such as Starlink & GPS

Google won’t allow people to create deepfakes using its collaborative machine learning platform any longer

“Python may be the second choice to R, but its popularity and ease of use positions it to dominate data science” 

Top YouTube channels for learning data science

Some basic data cleaning issues and possible solutions

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