Dear friends,

Welcome to the 43rd issue of the Sunday Briefing. This week we take a small break from pandemic coverage to focus a bit more on more traditional data science and machine learning, the notable exception being a wonderful visual history of pandemics by the World Economic Forum that we can put under the heading of visualization and infographics

This week, Google Research announced the release of AutoML-Zero, a new framework to Evolve Machine Learning Algorithms. On the neural network front, we look at Survival Analysis in Keras and data extraction from financial documents.

From more traditional academia, we have a Survey on Contextual Embeddings and one on Adversarial Learning on Graphs and a deep dive into human mobility by looking at interurban movements and Flow descriptors of human mobility networks.

Finally, in our video of the week Derek Kane gives us a detailed tutorial on Hidden Markov Models, a simple example of a dynamic Bayesian network.

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Semper discentes,

The D4S team