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With the final season of the television series ‘Game of Thrones’ upon us it is a good opportunity to take a closer look at the books that the series is based on. We will discover how a numerical processing of the books can help us reveal patterns that lie hidden in ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. How does one begin to objectively measure a book? Isn’t it all about the subjective experience in the mind of the reader? Indeed, there are many ways of how literary critics have tried to capture and communicate the essence and measure of value of a book. A book, along with other forms of art, is often valued to the extent which it can give us new and nuanced insights into our own human experience. A fantasy novel series such as ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ sets the story in a more boundless landscape allowing even more freedom to explore the hopes and fears that lies within us all. However, this article is not a literary critics review, but rather a data science exploration. This numerical explor...

The best trained soldiers can’t fulfill their mission empty-handed. Data scientists have their own weapons  —  machine learning (ML) software. There is already a cornucopia of articles listing reliable machine learning tools with in-depth descriptions of their functionality. Our goal, however, was to get the feedback of industry experts. And that’s why we interviewed data science practitioners — gurus, really  — regarding the useful tools they choose for  their  projects. The specialists we contacted have various fields of expertise and are working in such companies as Facebook and Samsung. Some of them represent AI startups (Objection Co, NEAR.AI, and Respeecher); some teach at universities (Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics). The AltexSoft data science team joined the discussion, too. And if you’re looking for a particular type of tools, just skip to your sector of interest: Languages used in machine learning Data analytics an...