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How to Learn and Master in Data Science

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iPhone 6s to iPhone 8 - Do you really need To Buy or Not to Buy ?

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It is a wonderful thing to see that Apple released a new version of iPhone's along with new iOS. Apple is thriving. Many people along with us are really excited to use new iPhone and see how better they are from the previous ones. As part of this interest of people, Tech Insider released a video on it saying "I won't trade in my iPhone 6s for an iPhone 8 or iPhone X — here's why".

Source: iPhone8Biz.com

We were analyzing whether to upgrade to a new iPhone or continue with the existing iPhone or the latest Android phone. As Tech Insider released a video, we would like to add some more information to it. Anyway, this matters to people who are using iPhone 6S and later versions. If you analyze your needs with the features of iPhones 6S and iPhone 8, you will be able to find out how better is iPhone 8 than your existing iPhone. Then compare the price with the difference in features, you might be amazed at the outcome.

People with iPhone 5 or 5S versions in hand are obviously welcomed to get an iPhone 8 as this upgrade gives them boost in having a larger iPhone screen, better features, better performance and a better camera at some good price.

Source: Tech Insider - Watch Video on Facebook Page

Countries like the US, UK provide us the latest phones on contract for affordable rates per month along with talk time and internet along with upgrade feature as, get a new phone every two years and keep the old ones with you. With this kind of feature getting an iPhone 8 is better than buying an iPhone 8 out of contact is not recommendable. And if you compare to the countries like India, people have good buying capacity even without the contracts kind of feature. (No Gadget Insurance Cover as well)

Yet it depends on person to person, on how badly they wanted to get a new iPhone, is it for development, is it for review, is it that they just wanted to have the latest phone, or is it necessary to have a phone or an iPhone latest only, based on personal circumstances. Here come's few things one needs to consider before they take a step and buy an iPhone 8. Affordability, Luxuriousness, and Smartness are three top things which make us manage our budgets well enough and also sometimes they allow us to identify a true value of an object according to the personal circumstances.

Vary the features of iPhone 6s to iPhone 8 and decide whether to buy or not to buy an iPhone 8 if at all you are using iPhone 6s or later.

Personally, we use an iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, Moto X 2nd Gen and also use a DSLR Nikon D3100 and MacBook Pro Mid 2012 model. These things are smart enough to keep us going forward and do the best what we could. Greatly we received the new iOS 11 and Mac OS High Sierra, no complaints.. everything's working fine except iMessage on MacBook Pro is little odd and it doesn't allow us to delete multiple messages at a time. Ended up deleting one of after the other. We wish if Apple could attend this issue.

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Learn from Top 25 Online Learning Websites - Free Online Courses and Classes - Any body can learn and code

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This is one greatly available opportunity for the beginners, who are into undergraduate studies in computer science /information technology or for the people who are interested in learning how to code. There are many website's and resources available over the internet for reference and learning, many of them end up in an unstructured format. Few of them had put their content in an optimised manner for people /students to learn, who are new to this technological world for programming.

Some of them provide advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Visualization through Tableau or Qlik View , Chatbot Development , Neural Networks and other through their online learning websites.

Here are few website's shortlisted for you which provide free online courses :

Khan Academy

You can learn anything for free at Khan Academy which has over 10,000 videos with explanation from various categories of courses. Provides a personalised learning experience with features such as progress tracking and practice exercises, along with training material/ documentation. A fully funded non-profit organization recognised by Google, Disney & Pixar Animation Studios and many others.

Coursera

A company founded by professors of Stanford. You can find courses for basic programming to advanced. Coursera is known for its good quality of online courses and it is available across all smart devices. This company also partners with top universities and companies available world wide to offer courses online for anyone to take for free.

Udemy

Udemy is a global market place for learning and teaching online with more than 55,000+ online courses. Students can learn at their own pace in their own time across various devices. Start learning new skill today.

Udacity

A pioneer in online education, which is the most trusted measurement of quality for the courses they provide online. Explore through the various courses available in Udacity and select the one you required.

Edx.Org

Edx provides free online courses from the world's best universities and institutions. Edx has both paid and free courses across various disciplines. The Massachusetts University of Technology and Harvard University has created Edx. Edx for some courses offers certificates for course completion and for some it provides credits.

Codecademy

Codecademy is an online interactive platform offering free online courses. It offers free coding classes for almost 12 different programming languages, which includes Python, Java, Ruby, Javascript, SQL, Sass, PHP along with markup languages such as HTML and CSS.

Here are few more sites which provide free and paid online courses.

FreeCodeCamp

An interactive learning web platform, an online community platform helping people learn web development.

HTML5 Tutorial

This tutorial is for beginners, helps you learn the basics and build a simple website and have a solid understanding of HTML 5.

iTunesU

This brings classroom teaching sessions to iPad. You can join and watch any course you wished to learn. Top Universities and Institutions distribute their courses and collections of education content along with the course sessions online.

OpenCulture

Open Culture has got more than 1250 online course videos related to computer science which are even available for download. It provides one of the best free educational media on the web.

FutureLearn

This provides free online courses from Top Universities and special organizations across the world.

Alison

It is an e-Learning providing academy to enable people learn basic education and workplace skills.

Code

Code - Any body can learn and code. Code.org tries to reach students of all backgrounds to teach and test their skills. It also inspires them to keep learning. Code provides computer science courses from basic to advanced over online based on a range of age, a student fits in.

OpenLearn

Open learn provides education to millions of learners around the world. It makes new knowledge available for free to millions of students, also allows them to download. It aims to improve the educational opportunities around the world.

Here are some of the Top Universities providing their courses online :

Along with these Universities there are many other like Purdue University, The University of Warwick, University of Bristol, Universitat of Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona, Queens University Belfast, National Chiao Tung University and many other well known universities are taking part in providing free education through online courses to millions of students.

There are few more worthy sites which needs payment for access and where people can upload their teaching content to make them available for others as Online Courses :

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A.I., Chatbot and Me .. Learn how to develop a chatbot that fits your business

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Chatbot (A chat robot ) : A program developed through computer, made to simulate an intelligent conversation or chat, through "Artificial Intelligence" over an instant messaging interface.

Some of the well know chatbots : Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google's Assistant, Google Allo, Amazon's Alexa, Facebook's Messenger. All these are different versions of chatbots. Beyond these branded chatbots there are good number of other chatbots integrated across various sectors ranging from customer service, checking weather to doing more complicated and logical tasks. In 2016 alone the no. of chatbots developed were somewhere around 34000 and increasing. As this is a leading technology and a trend changer, many AI based startups were founded and later some of them are being merged or acquired by giant tech companies and here is the report.

Pic Credits: CBINSIGHTS

Technically what makes a bot to chat and be a chatbot ?

A bot can be a good one or a bad one. The developers intention behind the development of a bot to perform some task is the one that characterises the bot. I hope you will not enjoy reading details on bad bots, so here I start with A.I..

Artificial Intelligence : A concept developed as program with abilities to solve problems on it's own for specified tasks or posses human like intelligence for visual perception, decision making and for speech recognition. Computer on it's own cannot solve or do such tasks as and when you ask it to do, it needs to have AI powered program. AI powered programs can also be integrated into website's and instant messengers (chatbots).

AI for website : Is a mix of UI and Artificial Intelligence to have a well designed and programmed user interface. Example's: Slack, Weps and The Grid .. the known AI Websites and Website Builders.

Molly - The Grid's AI Web Designer

Chatbots : These are being used across industries and for various purposes. These are categorised into AI based and Non-AI based.

Non-A.I. based chatbots are scripted chatbots, these basically can't do any task which needed intelligence.

A.I. based chatbots are classified based on their value proposed. These are designed and developed to perform specified task, or provide services on demand. Example providing weather information or news. Based on nature of task they perform they are classified into different types.

"Chatbots are designed to accomplish a task".

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Social bots: Social Chatbots run based on unique of a group or crowd available online in the social media's messaging platforms, such as Facebook's Messenger, Slack bots, Tinder Stacks and few more.

Chatty's : Chatty bots (chatbots) designed just to have conversation with users (website visitors). This is to make user's engage on website, which indirectly helps to accomplish social and commercial goals.

Shield's : Shield bot, a chatbot to execute customer support activities, comparing to feature their abilities and benefits than others and also includes fighting a parking ticket. For this, probably the best example and easy to recognise is the "Chatbot Lawyer". These kind of chatbots are also called as optimiser chatbots built to provide pleasant and friendly user experiences.

Optimiser's : These optimiser chatbots are largely available functional bots designated to assist users in getting results for the query they raised and concentrated on providing better user experience.

Pro-active's : These bots act according to time and place to provide right information at right time and are specialised in it. They provide notifications without much disturbing the user.

One-Trick Pony's : One thing at a time, doing mini activities as an utility tool built into messaging platforms which can convert images to meme's or add text to videos. These are simply excellent bots which can reflect cognitive capabilities.

Finally here we come, to the well known and other amazing chatbots available in the market :

"The Raise of Digital Assistants"

Super bots : Google Allo & Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and the upcoming Samsung Bixby. These are the intelligent personal assistants powered to perform various actions and show up their skills. Some of these are built into operating systems available across multiple platforms and some into digital devices. Hoping many of you are aware of these chatbots as apps on your mobile / desktop and digital devices.

Our digital assistants/chatbots are still not smarter why ? Do we need to speak in their understandable language or will they have to understand humans natural language. Here comes the importance of NLP ( Natural Language Processing ) which helps in enabling Conversational A.I.

When NLP comes to discussion, one might hear of NLU ( Natural Language Understanding ) being used as interchangeable term with NLP. NLP allows the systems to work together and handle end to end interactions between human and machine in the human's preferred language. To keep it simple if show you the difference between NLP and NLU.

NLP : When a query is raised by user, NLP accepts the query, breaks it down to comprehend it's meaning to take appropriate action and respond as quickly as possible in user understandable language.

NLU : Deals with complex challenges of A.I., that is to handle unstructured inputs governed by flexible rules for converting them into structured format, that a machine can understand. NLU is just about the machine's ability to understand what user says and act accordingly. Statistical Modelling, Sentiment Analysis and conversion or filtering of speech or text i.e., Computational Linguistics come into picture when you talk about NLU. Example : Seeker (An AI SalesMan).

If you like to try having fun with bots , then go with Instant Translator, Chillin, Chatty, Vexera and for Data Science enthusiasts try Innodatatics_bot over Telegram app.

Other amazing bots & cognitive agents:

Techcrunch : Helps users to get latest news through the subscriptions they took from various topics.

Trim : This helps in clearing out or unsubscribing from various subscriptions user took, by analysing transaction details.

Instalocate : A flight tracking chatbot integrated with Facebook messenger.

Letstock : A chatbot to get recent stock quotes.

Seeker (An AI SalesMan) from SeekNShop.io :

An upcoming pluggable cognitive agent for e-commerce platforms with intuitive chat and voice interfaces. This allows end users to discover products along with contextual product recommendation and real time promotions. Which is based on engagement of customers on sellers web/mobile channels, provides real-time insights for sellers.

Shoppers prefer physical store experience due to human interaction, assistance and support offered by customer service representative's. The common customer shopping pattern's such as bargaining, requiring a guided product discovery and recommendations to avoid confusion, makes a customer to potential buyer and a next time visitor as well. But this isn't possible in e-commerce just because of the sheer scale to be catered to millions of users. Providing a similar support or shopping experience as in-store shopping isn't possible without AI.

Seeker made it possible. It re-creates best in-store experience by leveraging Artificial Intelligence and the power of live conversations with customers, by using some patent pending techniques involving deep learning and reinforcement learning in digital/ online shopping platforms. And this is a perfect blend of technology i.e., NLU + Cognitive Assistance which learns from customer interactions and cross references to several user conversations to respond better and to ease customers shopping experience. The opportunities for cognitive agents in business are unexploited. However it's time they have made their way into the market with AI.

Here are some reference's which we personally collected, to help you find details on :

"How to build a chatbot from scratch"

"Language of Chatbots"

"Best way to learn and write an AI Chat Bot"

Pic Credits Quora.com

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Machine Learning, Deep Learning are trending now and spreading across various industries like Medical, Education, Automobile, IT, FinTech, Banking, HR, Manufacturing. This is an untapped opportunity for people to build something worthy by developing applications that truly services the customer.

How can I choose or develop the best bot that fits my business ?

You need to follow these steps to develop a chatbot

1. What are the goals you want achieve by building a chatbot
2. Identify the opportunities you want to capture by using a A.I. based chatbot
3. Design chatbot conversations
4. Use frameworks or development platforms to build the chatbot

Along with these, businesses need to identify what work can be automated and what complexity can be reduced by using Artificial Intelligence solutions. By analysing the activities one can see that complexity can be in data or work. These activities are intended to Innovate, Effective, Efficient and be as an Expert in providing solutions.

Here are few known chatbot

builder platforms : Motion AI, Converse.io, Octane.ai .
developer frameworks : Microsoft bot framework, API.ai , Wit.ai (Facebook's bot engine)

Choose the required and make the best out of it.

Chatbots can be used for automating routine tasks without loosing the charm of your business. Use human intelligence for productive activities.

If you are eager enough to know about acquirers of A.I based startups then look at CBINSIGHTS infographic as per July 2017.