Introduction This guide has been created to assist my graduate students in thinking through the many aspects of crafting, implementing and defending a thesis or dissertation. It is my attempt to share some of the many ideas that have surfaced over the past few years that definitely make the task of finishing a graduate degree so much easier. (This Guide is a companion to the Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal.) Usually a guide of this nature focuses on the actual implementation of the research
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2014 Data Science Salary Survey Tools, Trends, What Pays (and What Doesn’t) for Data Professionals John King & Roger Magoulas Take the Data Science Salary and Tools Survey As data analysts and engineers—as professionals who like nothing better than petabytes of rich data—we find ourselves in a strange spot: We know very little about ourselves. But that’s changing. This salary and tools survey is the second in an annual series. To keep the insights flowing, we need one thing: People
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hdayanid, vkanlanji}@andrew.cmu.edu 1 Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, USA Abstract. In various ML-as-a-service cloud systems, the process of performing machine learning over the data is almost treated as a black box, where the user just feeds in their data, knows the model used and the system outputs required insights. In this work, we explore the idea of being able to predict sensitive attributes associated with the database given that the adversary would have
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resorts. For simplicity, “Hotel” refers to both hotels and resorts, with our survey covering 3, 4 and 5-Star rated hotels. Statistics are presented by Star Category (hotel rankings), Hotel Size (number of rooms) and Hotel Region (location). When presenting the statistics, hotel size is defined within three categories ranging from small to large hotels, described as less than 75 rooms, 75 to 150 rooms and more than 150 rooms. Lastly, hotel regions are separated into the three main areas of Vietnam;
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My Student Survival guide to distance learning. By Roel Maldonado Index Introduction………………………………. Using Educational Resources…………… Upholding Academic Honesty…………….. Setting and Achieving Goals……………… Managing Time Wisely……………………. Fostering Reading Comprehension and Retention…………………………………… Applying Personality and Learning Styles………………………………………..
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collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. The word statistics, when referring to the scientific discipline, is singular, as in "Statistics is an art."This should not be confused with the word statistic, referring to a quantity (such as mean or median) calculated from a set of data, whose plural is statistics ("this statistic seems wrong" or "these
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How to Be a Successful PhD Student (in Computer Science (in NLP/ML)) Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University) Hanna M. Wallach (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Version 1.0, March 20, 2012 Being a graduate student can be extremely rewarding and a lot of fun, but it’s also hard work. Like anything in life, there are ways to succeed and ways to fail. Hopefully, you will find a good support network that can help you learn what it takes to be a good graduate student. However, not everyone is able
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LAMAR UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF BUSINESS MGMT5380 - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Brad Mayer: Galloway 204 (880-2383); bradley.mayer@lamar.edu Office Hrs: MWF 9:20-10:20 AM (and by appointment) The mission of the College of Business at Lamar University is to provide a quality education to a diverse student population from Southeast Texas and beyond, resulting in well-rounded business professionals who are prepared to meet the challenges of a dynamic global environment while upholding ethical
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Introduction It is a mandatory requirement for public companies in most countries to produce a financial report on a periodic basis for relevant regulatory bodies and shareholders. The financial report usually includes a director’s report, three financial statements and an audit report, as well as relevant notes to the accounts. This paper will look at the financial reporting practices of four companies in a comparative international context from a user’s perspective. This report was not completed
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Gathering Information and Writing a Research Paper Writing a research paper for the first time can be a difficult task if not given the proper instruction to complete such an assignment. Breaking a research paper down into separate tasks and sections might ease frustrations for the researcher and give them some fundamental tools for future research projects. A good question to ask your self is “Where do I begin my research?” Some students that are tasked with writing a research paper for
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