Top August Stories: Automate Microsoft Excel and Word Using Python; The Difference Between Data Scientists and ML Engineers

Here are the most popular August 2021 stories on KDnuggets. The first 6 blogs also won KDnuggets Top Blogs Rewards for August.

Most Viewed - Platinum Badge (>32,000 UPV)

1. Automate Microsoft Excel and Word Using Python, by Mohammad Khorasani (*)

Most Viewed - Gold Badge (>16,000 UPV)

2. The Difference Between Data Scientists and ML Engineers, by Kurtis Pykes
3. Most Common Data Science Interview Questions and Answers, by Nate Rosidi (*)
4. 3 Reasons Why You Should Use Linear Regression Models Instead of Neural Networks, by Terence Shin

Most Viewed - Silver Badge (> 8,000 UPV)

5. Django's 9 Most Common Applications, by Aakash Bijwe
6. Learning Data Science and Machine Learning: First Steps After The Roadmap, by Harshit Tyagi (*)
7. How Visualization is Transforming Exploratory Data Analysis, by Todd Mostak (*)

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Most Shared - Platinum Badge (>1400 shares)

1. The Difference Between Data Scientists and ML Engineers, by Kurtis Pykes

Most Shared - Gold Badge (>700 shares)

2. How to Query Your Pandas Dataframe, by Matthew Przybyla (*)
3. Bootstrap a Modern Data Stack in 5 minutes with Terraform, by Tuan Nguyen
4. GPU-Powered Data Science (NOT Deep Learning) with RAPIDS, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar (*)
5. 3 Reasons Why You Should Use Linear Regression Models Instead of Neural Networks, by Terence Shin
6. Prefect: How to Write and Schedule Your First ETL Pipeline with Python, by Dario Radecic

Most Shared - Silver Badge (>400 shares)

7. How Visualization is Transforming Exploratory Data Analysis, by Todd Mostak
8. Practising SQL without your own database, by Hui Xiang Chua (*)
9. Django's 9 Most Common Applications, by Aakash Bijwe
10. Automate Microsoft Excel and Word Using Python, by Mohammad Khorasani
11. How To Become A Freelance Data Scientist – 4 Practical Tips, by Pau Labarta Bajo (*)
12. Learning Data Science and Machine Learning: First Steps After The Roadmap, by Harshit Tyagi
13. Most Common Data Science Interview Questions and Answers, by Nate Rosidi

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Most Shareable (Viral) Blogs

Among the top blogs, here are the blogs with the highest ratio of shares/unique views, which suggests that people who read it really liked it.

1. How to Query Your Pandas Dataframe, by Matthew Przybyla
2. Bootstrap a Modern Data Stack in 5 minutes with Terraform, by Tuan Nguyen
3. GPU-Powered Data Science (NOT Deep Learning) with RAPIDS, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar
4. Practising SQL without your own database, by Hui Xiang Chua
5. Prefect: How to Write and Schedule Your First ETL Pipeline with Python, by Dario Radecic