Dear friends,

Welcome to the 4th of July weekend edition of the Sunday Briefing.

This week we're on hiatus from blogging but you can check out our latest blog post in the CoVID-19 series on the blog: CoVID-19: The first truly global event. In this post we take a look at the impact that CoVID-19 has in our lives, economies and societies. As always, you can follow along with the GitHub repository containing the respective Python code. We hope you find it useful and gladly welcome any comments you might have.

We're also happy to announce a partnership with the wonderful people of Data Umbrella. This week we  would like to highlight two of their upcoming online events: Intro to Terminal Commands (Jul 10) and Build a Career in Data Science (Jul 14). Don't miss them!

This week we split our focus into two main topics. On one hand, we take a deep dive into neural networks with an exploration of What is a Convolutional Neural Network? and an interview of Kai-Fu Lee on  the Art of AI,  a discussion on how Neurons that fire together, wire together and a paper on how to generate Synthetic Data for Deep Learning. On the other, we look at Causality with an explanation of Counterfactual Theories of Causation using causality for Interpretable Machine Learning and X-SHAP: towards multiplicative explainability of Machine Learning.

Finally, the video of the week we have a Fire side change with Alan Wilson, Theresa-Marie Rhyne and Julia Krolik on the Color Theory, possibly one the most overlooked ingredients to making a successful visualization.

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Today, more than ever,
Semper discentes,

The D4S team