28 Data Science articles from April 2022

“Machine learning, deep learning, and all other technologies that fit under the umbrella term ‘AI’ should be considered only after you have well-defined goals and problems”

Space Force has insatiable demand for geospatial intelligence

“The computer paradigm especially when applied to natural language understanding (NLU) and brains, isn’t effective when needed in artificial intelligence applications.” Here’s an alternative model based on patterns

A step-by-step explanation of computational graphs and backpropagation in a recurrent neural network

NGI taking operational control of part of Project Maven—the Pentagon’s signature artificial intelligence program

NGA shifting tech investment to reflect GEOINT revolution:  "The flood of new imagery capabilities is overwhelming. Data driven technologies like artificial intelligence are essential”

How commercial space systems are changing the conflict in Ukraine

Outsourcing model-training to third parties? There are some undetectable backdoors in machine learning model classifiers ripe for misuse

Is interpreting ML models a dead-end? Can the interpretation process be detached from the model architecture?  

Today’s battlefield data is helping smart machines model the wars of the future 

“Applying advanced AI tools to publicly available imagery is producing critical information to help the Ukrainian military thwart Russian attacks.”

How big is the US space economy? Here are the numbers: “The statistics show a space economy in transition”

Is artificial intelligence creating a new colonial world order? An MIT Tech Review explores the topic

Practical tips on creating dashboards using Python, Plotly & Dash

58 Data Visualization and Infographic Options 

The co-creator of R reflects on the language 

How to use SQL anti-joins in your data science career

“Tech companies have been using automated tools to moderate content for a really long time and while it’s touted as this sophisticated machine learning, it’s often just a list of words they think are problematic”

A new machine learning generative model from OpenAI can generate mashup images from text descriptions—here’s a look at its deep learning promise as well as limitations

The Standard Model takes a hit from work at Fermilab on the elementary particle called the W 

“The US Space Force plans to launch to geostationary orbit three small satellites that will attempt to dock with a propellant tanker so they can be refueled in space”

The weakest link in space systems revealed in Viasat Cyber Attack

Are low-code and no-code solutions an immediate threat to job security of the professional software developer? 

NASA is planning for a first: launching a robot to refuel a satellite in space 

Google is launching BigLake—a new data lake storage engine with the goal of merging disparate lakes and warehouses to minimize silos

Geospatial intelligence is having its “internet moment” right now

S. Korea aims to deploy microsatellites via solid-fuel rocket within 3 years

A look at TPOT—Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool—the Python “data science assistant” that helps to build machine-learning fully-automated prediction pipelines

The future of space: 3 aerospace experts describe the space economy of tomorrow