2021 Oct

• The Case for a Global Responsible AI Framework, by David Sweenor - Oct 30, 2021.
  Public and private organizations have come out with their own set of AI principles, focusing on AI-related risks from their perspective. However, it’s imperative d=to have a global consensus on Responsible AI – based on data governance, transparency and accountability – on how to utilize and benefit from AI in a way that is both consistent and ethical.

  AI, Ethics, Responsible AI

• Multivariate Time Series Analysis with an LSTM based RNN, by Kathrin Melcher - Oct 29, 2021.
  Check out this codeless solution using the Keras integration.

  Keras, Knime, Low-Code, LSTM, Time Series

• ETL and ELT: A Guide and Market Analysis, by Louise de Leyritz - Oct 29, 2021.
  ETL and related techniques remain a powerful and foundational tool in the data industry. We explain what ETL is and how ETL and ELT processes have evolved over the years, with a close eye toward how third-generation ETL tools are about to disrupt standard data processing practices.

  Data Preparation, ELT, ETL, Market Research, Pipeline

• Simple Text Scraping, Parsing, and Processing with this Python Library, by Matthew Mayo - Oct 29, 2021.
  Scraping, parsing, and processing text data from the web can be difficult. But it can also be easy, using Newspaper3k.

  Data Processing, NLP, Python, Text Analytics, Web Scraping

• What Google Recommends You do Before Taking Their Machine Learning or Data Science Course, by Harshit Tyagi - Oct 28, 2021.
  First steps to learning data science & machine learning are the foundations.

  Beginners, Courses, Data Science, Google, Machine Learning

• Want to Join a Bank? Everything Data Scientists Need to Know About Working in Fintech, by Shameek Kundu - Oct 28, 2021.
  There is ample opportunity for data scientists in the financial services sector. The career experience can be very different, however, from similar roles at pure technology organizations. So, it's best to first consider if this industry is right for your interests, preferences for how you work, and long-term goals.

  Career Advice, Data Scientist, Finance, Fintech

• Analyze Python Code in Jupyter Notebooks, by Julien Delange - Oct 28, 2021.
  We present a new tool that integrates modern code analysis techniques with Jupyter notebooks and helps developers find bugs as they write code.

  Jupyter, Programming, Python

• How to Build Data Frameworks with Open Source Tools to Enhance Agility and Security, by Nahla Davies - Oct 27, 2021.
  Let’s take a look at how to harness open source tools to build your data frameworks.

  Data Democratization, Deployment, Open Source, Security

• A Guide to 14 Different Data Science Jobs, by Nate Rosidi - Oct 27, 2021.
  The field of data science is growing into one that features a variety of job titles This guide reviews different positions available for you to consider if you have a data science background.

  Business Analyst, Career Advice, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Jobs, Machine Learning Engineer

• Machine Learning Model Development and Model Operations: Principles and Practices, by Suresh Yaram - Oct 27, 2021.
  The ML model management and the delivery of highly performing model is as important as the initial build of the model by choosing right dataset. The concepts around model retraining, model versioning, model deployment and model monitoring are the basis for machine learning operations (MLOps) that helps the data science teams deliver highly performing models.

  Algorithms, Deployment, Feature Engineering, Machine Learning, MLOps

• Export Data from the Web Scraping Tool through Zapier Integration, by Octoparse - Oct 26, 2021.
  Octoparse makes it easy to collect data from websites and automate workflows on the web. Zapier is an online platform that allows you to automate workflows by connecting the apps and services you use. Zapier connection, the new feature in Octoparse, makes it possible to connect the product with apps including Google Drive, Google Sheets, Dropbox, Trello, Slack, and load more apps in a second with NO CODE.

  Octoparse, Web Scraping

• Getting Started with PyTorch Lightning, by Kevin Vu - Oct 26, 2021.
  As a library designed for production research, PyTorch Lightning streamlines hardware support and distributed training as well, and we’ll show how easy it is to move training to a GPU toward the end.

  Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Python, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning

• How To Defeat The Machine Learning Engineer Impostor Syndrome, by Pau Labarta Bajo - Oct 26, 2021.
  How many times have you taken yet another online course on machine learning or read yet another paper on a new emerging topic, to be up-to-date in this crazy fast-paced AI/ML world -- only to keep feeling like an ML engineer impostor? These three personal tips can help you overcome the classic (and common) impostor syndrome behind every emerging ML engineer who wants to be better at what you do.

  Career Advice, Machine Learning Engineer

• Four Basic Steps in Data Preparation, by Rosaria Silipo - Oct 26, 2021.
  What we would like to do here is introduce four very basic and very general steps in data preparation for machine learning algorithms. We will describe how and why to apply such transformations within a specific example.

  Data Preparation, Data Preprocessing, Data Science, Missing Values, Normalization, Sampling

• Top Stories, Oct 18-24: How I Tripled My Income With Data Science in 18 Months; Data Science Portfolio Project Ideas That Can Get You Hired (Or Not), by KDnuggets - Oct 25, 2021.
  Also: Data Scientist vs Data Engineer Salary; The 20 Python Packages You Need For Machine Learning and Data Science; Exclusive: OpenAI summarizes KDnuggets; Real Time Image Segmentation Using 5 Lines of Code

  Top stories

• 365 Data Science courses free until 18 November, by 365 Data Science - Oct 25, 2021.
  365 Data Science, an online educational platform providing beginner-to-advanced courses for data science and business analytics professionals, will unlock the entire library of courses, hands-on exercises, certificate exams, and resume builder for a full 30-day period from Oct. 18 to Nov. 18.

  Courses, Data Science Education, Online Education

• Guide To Finding The Right Predictive Maintenance Machine Learning Techniques, by Maruti Techlabs - Oct 25, 2021.
  What happens to a life so dependent on machines, when that particular machine breaks down? This is precisely why there’s a dire need for predictive maintenance with machine learning.

  Machine Learning, Maintenance, Monitoring

• Save Sarah Connor with Data Science, by Peter Kozlov - Oct 25, 2021.
  Data science and data privacy are deeply interwoven, and must be carefully considered by practitioners. In comparing the Safe Harbour and Expert Determination data obfuscation approaches, Safe Harbour has been very popular among data engineers but has fundamental limitations, where Expert Determination offers important advantages.

  Data Analytics, Data Science, GDPR, Movies, Privacy

• Learn To Reproduce Papers: Beginner’s Guide, by Olga Chernytska - Oct 25, 2021.
  Step-by-step instructions on how to understand Deep Learning papers and implement the described approaches.

  Beginners, Deep Learning, Papers with code, Research

• Exclusive: OpenAI summarizes KDnuggets, by Gregory Piatetsky - Oct 23, 2021.
  OpenAI has recently done amazing work summarizing full-length books. We have asked OpenAI to summarize two recent KDnuggets posts, and the results have a very human-like quality. Only the last line betrays the inhuman intelligence at work.

  About KDnuggets, OpenAI, Summarization

• How to Transform Your Data in Snowflake, by Datameer - Oct 22, 2021.
  Data transformation is the biggest bottleneck in the analytics workflow. The modern approach to data pipelines is ELT, or extract, transform, and load, with data transformation performed in your Snowflake data warehouse. A new breed of “no-/low-code” data transformation tools, such as Datameer, are emerging to allow the wider analytics community to transform data on their own, eliminating analytics bottlenecks.

  Data Transformation, Datameer, Snowflake

• Deploying Serverless spaCy Transformer Model with AWS Lambda, by Walid Amamou - Oct 22, 2021.
  A step-by-step guide on how to deploy NER transformer model serverless.

  AWS, Deployment, NLP, spaCy, Transformer

• Introduction to AutoEncoder and Variational AutoEncoder (VAE), by Nagesh Chauhan - Oct 22, 2021.
  Autoencoders and their variants are interesting and powerful artificial neural networks used in unsupervised learning scenarios. Learn how autoencoders perform in their different approaches and how to implement with Keras on the instructional data set of the MNIST digits.

  Autoencoder, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Python

• Find the Best-Matching Distribution for Your Data Effortlessly, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar - Oct 22, 2021.
  How to find the best-matching statistical distributions for your data points — in an automated and easy way. And, then how to extend the utility further.

  Distribution, Python, Statistics, Synthetic Data

• DATAnalyze 2021 Analytics Hackathon Sponsored by Microsoft and WorldData.AI, $125,000 in prizes!, by DATAnalyze - Oct 21, 2021.
  Tech Tree Root is excited to introduce you to our DATAnalyze 2021 sponsors Microsoft, WorldData.AI, and HBCU Connect! Our online analytics hackathon is offering up to $125,000 USD in prizes!

  Analytics, Hackathon, Microsoft, WorldData.AI

• Training BPE, WordPiece, and Unigram Tokenizers from Scratch using Hugging Face, by Harshit Tyagi - Oct 21, 2021.
  Comparing the tokens generated by SOTA tokenization algorithms using Hugging Face's tokenizers package.

  Hugging Face, NLP, Python, Tokenization

• Level-Up This November with the ODSC West 2021 Keynotes and Training Sessions, by ODSC - Oct 20, 2021.
  At ODSC West 2021 this November 16th-18th, we’ll have 80+ training sessions and workshops on essential tools and languages led by some of the best and brightest minds in data science and AI.

  Data Engineering, Meetings, MLOps, ODSC, Online Education

• Data Science Portfolio Project Ideas That Can Get You Hired (Or Not), by Nate Rosidi - Oct 20, 2021.
  Choosing what to include in your data science portfolio during the job search is the most important part of the process. Each project should be well-structured so that a hiring manager can assess your skills quickly. To help you get started, we highlight a few data science project ideas that you should consider for your portfolio.

  Career Advice, Data Science, Portfolio, Project

• Data Scientist vs Data Engineer Salary, by Matthew Przybyla - Oct 20, 2021.
  What are the differences between these two popular tech roles?

  Career Advice, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Salary

• 2021 Data Engineer Salary Report Shares Insights on a Swiftly Evolving Market, by Burtch Works - Oct 19, 2021.
  Over the past few years, the data engineering market has seen tremendous growth. The acceleration of the data engineering market prompted us to create a new report specifically for data engineering professionals. You can download both the 2021 Data Engineering and 2021 Data Science & Analytics salary reports from our website for free.

  Burtch Works, Data Engineer, Hiring, Salary, Trends

• How Data Professionals Can Impress Even When Busy, by Devin Partida - Oct 19, 2021.
  While there may be plenty of room for advancement even when busy, how to achieve that isn’t always clear. In that spirit, here are five ways you can impress your company leadership.

  Career Advice, Data Science, Data Scientist

• 11 Most Practical Data Science Skills for 2022, by Terence Shin - Oct 19, 2021.
  While the field of data science continues to evolve with exciting new progress in analytical approaches and machine learning, there remain a core set of skills that are foundational for all general practitioners and specialists, especially those who want to be employable with full-stack capabilities.

  Career Advice, Data Science Skills, Explainable AI, Feature Engineering, GitHub, NLP, Regression, SQL

• How to Create an Interactive Dashboard in Three Steps with KNIME Analytics Platform, by Emilio Silvestri - Oct 19, 2021.
  In this blog post I will show you how to build a simple, but useful and good-looking dashboard to present your data - in three simple steps!

  Analytics, Dashboard, Data Visualization, Knime, Platform

• Top Stories, Oct 11-17: Query Your Pandas DataFrames with SQL, by KDnuggets - Oct 18, 2021.
  Also: How to Ace Data Science Interview by Working on Portfolio Projects; AutoML: An Introduction Using Auto-Sklearn and Auto-PyTorch; How to Build Strong Data Science Portfolio as a Beginner; 8 Must-Have Git Commands for Data Scientists

  Top stories

• Knowledge Graph Forum: Technology Ecosystem and Business Applications, by Ontotext - Oct 18, 2021.
  Ontotext is thrilled to invite you to the Ontotext & partners virtual Knowledge Graph Forum, Oct 26 & 27, 2021. This event is shaped by Ontotext’s vision that knowledge graphs serve as a hub for data, metadata and content. 35+ speakers from around the globe will share their experiences through real-life cases and platforms demonstrations. Save your spot now.

  Graph Databases, Knowledge Graph, Ontotext, Semantic Analysis

• Real Time Image Segmentation Using 5 Lines of Code, by Ayoola Olafenwa - Oct 18, 2021.
  PixelLib Library is a library created to allow easy integration of object segmentation in images and videos using few lines of python code. PixelLib now provides support for PyTorch backend to perform faster, more accurate segmentation and extraction of objects in images and videos using PointRend segmentation architecture.

  Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Python, Segmentation

• Avoid These Five Behaviors That Make You Look Like A Data Novice, by Tessa Xie - Oct 18, 2021.
  If you are new to the Data Science industry or a well-versed veteran in all things data and analytics, there are always key pitfalls that each of us can easily slide into if we are not careful. These behaviors not only make us appear like novices, but they can risk our position as a trustworthy, likable data partner with stakeholder.

  Beginners, Career Advice

• Serving ML Models in Production: Common Patterns, by Mo, Oakes & Galarnyk - Oct 18, 2021.
  Over the past couple years, we've seen 4 common patterns of machine learning in production: pipeline, ensemble, business logic, and online learning. In the ML serving space, implementing these patterns typically involves a tradeoff between ease of development and production readiness. Ray Serve was built to support these patterns by being both easy to develop and production ready.

  FastAPI, Machine Learning, Production, Python, Ray

• KDnuggets Top Blogs Rewards for September 2021, by Gregory Piatetsky - Oct 15, 2021.
  The September blogs that earned KDnuggets Rewards include: Do You Read Excel Files with Python? There is a 1000x Faster Way; Data Scientists Without Data Engineering Skills Will Face the Harsh Truth; Path to Full Stack Data Science; Nine Tools I Wish I Mastered Before My PhD in Machine Learning

  Blog Rewards, Top stories

• Learn from Northwestern Data Science experts, by Northwestern - Oct 15, 2021.
  Build the essential technical, analytical, and leadership skills needed for careers in today's data-driven world in Northwestern’s Master of Science in Data Science program. Apply now.

  Data Science Education, MS in Data Science, Northwestern, Online Education

• How our Obsession with Algorithms Broke Computer Vision: And how Synthetic Computer Vision can fix it, by Paul Pop - Oct 15, 2021.
  Deep Learning radically improved Machine Learning as a whole. The Data-Centric revolution is about to do the same. In this post, we’ll take a look at the pitfalls of mainstream Computer Vision (CV) and discuss why Synthetic Computer Vision (SCV) is the future.

  Algorithms, Computer Vision, Synthetic Data

• New Computing Paradigm for AI: Processing-in-Memory (PIM) Architecture, by Nam Sung Kim - Oct 15, 2021.
  As larger deep neural networks are trained on the latest and fastest chip technologies, an important challenge remains that bottlenecks performance -- and it is not compute power. You can try to calculate a DNN as fast as possible, but there is data -- and it has to move. Data pipelines on the chip are expensive and new solutions must be developed to advance capabilities.

  AI, Hardware, In-Memory Computing, Samsung

• How to calculate confidence intervals for performance metrics in Machine Learning using an automatic bootstrap method, by David B Rosen (PhD) - Oct 15, 2021.
  Are your model performance measurements very precise due to a “large” test set, or very uncertain due to a “small” or imbalanced test set?

  Machine Learning, Metrics, Statistics

• Amazon Web Services Webinar: Leverage data sets to create a customer-centric strategy and improve business outcomes, by Roidna - Oct 14, 2021.
  Register now for this webinar, Oct 28, to learn how using third-party data enhances applications to better prioritize your target customer - helping you build a more customer-centric business.

  AWS, Business, Customer Analytics, Webinar

• Deploying Your First Machine Learning API, by Abid Ali Awan - Oct 14, 2021.
  Effortless way to develop and deploy your machine learning API using FastAPI and Deta.

  API, Deployment, FastAPI, Machine Learning, Python, spaCy

• The 20 Python Packages You Need For Machine Learning and Data Science, by Sandro Luck - Oct 14, 2021.
  Do you do Python? Do you do data science and machine learning? Then, you need to do these crucial Python libraries that enable nearly all you will want to do.

  Data Science, Keras, Machine Learning, Matplotlib, numpy, Pandas, Plotly, Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, TensorFlow

• What is Clustering and How Does it Work?, by Satoru Hayasaka - Oct 14, 2021.
  Let us examine how clusters with different properties are produced by different clustering algorithms. In particular, we give an overview of three clustering methods: k-Means clustering, hierarchical clustering, and DBSCAN.

  Clustering, DBSCAN, K-means, Unsupervised Learning

• How Hasura Improved Conversion Rates By 20% With PostHog, by PostHog - Oct 13, 2021.
  Find out how Hasura increased conversion rates by 10-20% by using PostHog for self-hosted product analytics!

  Advice, Data Analytics, Data Science, Posthog, Tools

• Will Your Job be Replaced by a Machine?, by Martin Perry - Oct 13, 2021.
  Yes! It will happen. However, you can pivot and thrive in this disruptive time by becoming a Citizen Developer!

  Automation, Career Advice

• How to Ace Data Science Interview by Working on Portfolio Projects, by Abid Ali Awan - Oct 13, 2021.
  Recruiters of Data Science professionals around the world focus on portfolio projects rather than resumes and LinkedIn profiles. So, learning early how to contribute and share your work on GitHub, Deepnote, and Kaggle can help you perform your best during data science interviews.

  Data Science, GitHub, Interview Questions, Kaggle, Portfolio, Project

• Building Multimodal Models: Using the widedeep Pytorch package, by Rajiv Shah - Oct 13, 2021.
  This article gets you started on the open-source widedeep PyTorch framework developed by Javier Rodriguez Zaurin.

  Machine Learning, Modeling, Python, PyTorch

• Top September Stories: Do You Read Excel Files with Python? There is a 1000x Faster Way, by KDnuggets - Oct 12, 2021.
  Also: Data Scientists Without Data Engineering Skills Will Face the Harsh Truth; Nine Tools I Wish I Mastered Before My PhD in ML; A Data Science Portfolio That Will Land You The Job

• Transforming your business with SAS® Viya® on Microsoft Azure, by SAS - Oct 12, 2021.
  Faster, trusted decisions are in the cloud. See how you can use the flexibility, scalability and agility of modern technologies to advance your organization’s goals. Read our blog with 3-part video demo.

  Microsoft Azure, SAS, Viya

• Create Synthetic Time-series with Anomaly Signatures in Python, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar - Oct 12, 2021.
  A simple and intuitive way to create synthetic (artificial) time-series data with customized anomalies — particularly suited to industrial applications.

  Anomalies, Python, Synthetic Data, Time Series

• How I Built A Perfect Model And Got Into Trouble, by Oleg Novikov - Oct 12, 2021.
  Data-driven decisions, actionable insights, business impact—you've seen these buzzwords in data science jobs descriptions. But, just focusing on these terms doesn't automatically lead to the best results. Learn from this real-world scenario that followed data-driven indecisiveness, found misleading insights, and initially created a negative business impact.

  Analytics, Business, Customer Analytics, Finance, KPI, Metrics

• Step by Step Building a Vacancy Tracker Using Tableau, by Dotun Opasina - Oct 12, 2021.
  Step-by-step explanations of vacancies valued in tens of millions of dollars in the small town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

  Dashboard, Data Visualization, Tableau

• PASS Data Community Summit – Free Online Conference for Data Professionals, by PASS - Oct 11, 2021.
  PASS Data Community Summit 2021 is the year’s largest gathering of Microsoft data platform professionals. This FREE online conference (taking place November 8 – 12, 2021) features 200+ world-class speakers and sessions, and gives you the opportunity to connect, share, and learn with thousands of your peers from the global data platform community.

  Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Meetings, Microsoft, Online Education, PASS

• Top Stories, Oct 4-10: How to Build Strong Data Science Portfolio as a Beginner; 38 Free Courses on Coursera for Data Science, by KDnuggets - Oct 11, 2021.
  Also: Data science SQL interview questions from top tech firms; Here’s Why You Need Python Skills as a Machine Learning Engineer; 8 Must-Have Git Commands for Data Scientists; Introduction to PyTorch Lightning

  Top stories

• AutoML: An Introduction Using Auto-Sklearn and Auto-PyTorch, by Kevin Vu - Oct 11, 2021.
  AutoML is a broad category of techniques and tools for applying automated search to your automated search and learning to your learning. In addition to Auto-Sklearn, the Freiburg-Hannover AutoML group has also developed an Auto-PyTorch library. We’ll use both of these as our entry point into AutoML in the following simple tutorial.

  Automated Machine Learning, AutoML, Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn

• Scaling human oversight of AI systems for difficult tasks – OpenAI approach, by OpenAI - Oct 11, 2021.
  The foundational idea of Artificial Intelligence is that it should demonstrate human-level intelligence. So, unless a model can perform as a human might do, its intended purpose is missed. Here, recent OpenAI research into full-length book summarization focuses on generating results that make sense to humans with state-of-the-art results that leverage scalable AI-enhanced human-in-the-loop feedback.

  AGI, GPT-3, NLP, OpenAI, Summarization, Text Summarization

• Choose The Right Job in Data: 5 Signs To Look For In An Engineering Culture, by Niv Sluzki - Oct 8, 2021.
  Software engineers seeking jobs at data companies face a new problem: choosing the right job out of all the options. Learn the 5 signs that signal an agile and innovative engineering culture.

  Career Advice, Data Engineer, Data Science, Software Engineering

• Are you familiar with data labeling?, by Toloka - Oct 8, 2021.
  Are you familiar with common data labeling approaches and tools? Take a simple 2-minute survey.

  Data Labeling, Survey, Toloka

• 8 Must-Have Git Commands for Data Scientists, by Soner Yildirim - Oct 8, 2021.
  Git is a must-have skill for data scientists. Maintaining your development work within a version control system is absolutely necessary to have a collaborative and productive working environment with your colleagues. This guide will quickly start you off in the right direction for contributing to an existing project at your organization.

  Advice, Data Scientist, GitHub

• Dealing with Data Leakage, by Susan Currie Sivek, Ph.D. - Oct 8, 2021.
  Target leakage and data leakage represent challenging problems in machine learning. Be prepared to recognize and avoid these potentially messy problems.

  Cross-validation, Data Science, Datasets, Machine Learning, Modeling, Training Data

• Transforming the Shop Floor: A No-BS Look at Data Science in Manufacturing, by RapidMiner - Oct 7, 2021.
  Join RapidMiner live on LinkedIn, Oct 28, to learn how you can lead a digital transformation—not by starting from scratch, but by getting more from what you already have. We’ll walk through a series of real-world examples to demonstrate how your data, when paired with machine learning, can be used to make smarter process decisions.

  Industry, Manufacturing, RapidMiner, Webinar

• The Evolution of Tokenization – Byte Pair Encoding in NLP, by Harshit Tyagi - Oct 7, 2021.
  Though we have SOTA algorithms for tokenization, it's always a good practice to understand the evolution trail and learning how have we reached here. Read this introduction to Byte Pair Encoding.

  NLP, Python, Tokenization

• Building and Operationalizing Machine Learning Models: Three tips for success, by Jason Revelle - Oct 7, 2021.
  With more enterprises implementing machine learning to improve revenue and operations, properly operationalizing the ML lifecycle in a holistic way is crucial for data teams to make their projects efficient and effective.

  Deployment, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Engineer, Tips

• How to do “Limitless” Math in Python, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar - Oct 7, 2021.
  How to perform arbitrary-precision computation and much more math (and fast too) than what is possible with the built-in math library in Python.

  Linear Algebra, Mathematics, Probability, Python, Statistics

• Here’s Why You Need Python Skills as a Machine Learning Engineer, by UCSD - Oct 6, 2021.
  If you want to learn how to apply Python programming skills in the context of AI applications, the UC San Diego Extension Machine Learning Engineering Bootcamp can help. Read on to find out more about how machine learning engineers use Python, and why the language dominates today’s machine learning landscape.

  Bootcamp, Machine Learning Engineer, Online Education, Python, UCSD

• Four Different Pipes for R with magrittr, by Gregory Janesch - Oct 6, 2021.
  The magrittr package supplies the pipe operator (%>%), but it turns out that the package actually contains four pipe operators in total. Let's go into them a bit.

  Pipeline, R, Tidyverse

• 38 Free Courses on Coursera for Data Science, by Aqsa Zafar - Oct 6, 2021.
  There are so many online resources for learning data science, and a great deal of it can be used at no cost. This collection of free courses hosted by Coursera will help you enhance your data science and machine learning skills, no matter your current level of expertise.

  Coursera, Data Science Education, Online Education

• My AI Plays Piano for Me, by Kathrin Melcher - Oct 6, 2021.
  Training an RNN with a Combined Loss Function.

  AI, Music, Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks

• Eight Data Science Specializations, and Why You Should Pick One, by Pace University - Oct 5, 2021.
  With so many Data Science specializations, where should you focus? The Pace University online Master of Science in Data Science features elective courses which allow you to focus on topics that suit your career path so that you can begin to develop a unique specialization.

  Data Science Education, MS in Data Science, Online Education

• Will Data Analysts be Replaced by AI?, by Ngwa Bandolo Bobga Cyril - Oct 5, 2021.
  It's the question so many are asking: will data analysts be replaced by AI? Read this well-reasoned and concise opinion by someone with insight into the matter.

  AI, Automation, Data Analyst, Data Analytics

• Data science SQL interview questions from top tech firms, by Nate Rosidi - Oct 5, 2021.
  As a data scientist, there is one thing you really need to understand and know how to handle: data. With SQL being a foundational technical approach for working with data, it should not be surprising that the top tech companies will ask about your SQL skills during an interview. Here, we cover the key concepts tested so you can best prepare for your next data science interview.

  Amazon, Data Science, Facebook, Google, Interview Questions, SQL

• The Architecture Behind DeepMind’s Model for Near Real Time Weather Forecasts, by Jesus Rodriguez - Oct 5, 2021.
  Deep Generative Model of Rain (DGMR) is the newest creation from DeepMind which can predict precipitation in short term intervals.

  Architecture, DeepMind, Real-time, Weather

• Top Stories, Sep 27 – Oct 3: Path to Full Stack Data Science, by KDnuggets - Oct 4, 2021.
  Also: How To Build A Database Using Python; Surpassing Trillion Parameters and GPT-3 with Switch Transformers – a path to AGI?; Nine Tools I Wish I Mastered Before My PhD in Machine Learning; 20 Machine Learning Projects That Will Get You Hired

  Top stories

• Parallelizing Python Code, by Borycki & Galarnyk - Oct 4, 2021.
  This article reviews some common options for parallelizing Python code, including process-based parallelism, specialized libraries, ipython parallel, and Ray.

  Distributed Computing, Parallelism, Programming, Python, Ray

• Introduction to PyTorch Lightning, by Kevin Vu - Oct 4, 2021.
  PyTorch Lightning is a high-level programming layer built on top of PyTorch. It makes building and training models faster, easier, and more reliable.

  Deep Learning, Neural Networks, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning

• Cartoon: How Deep Is That Data Lake?, by Gregory Piatetsky - Oct 2, 2021.
  New KDnuggets Cartoon looks at some of the problems data engineers may encounter when trying to measure data lakes.

  Cartoon, Data Engineer, Data Lake

• Teaching AI to Classify Time-series Patterns with Synthetic Data, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar - Oct 1, 2021.
  How to build and train an AI model to identify various common anomaly patterns in time-series data.

  AI, Classification, Python, Synthetic Data, Time Series

• Surpassing Trillion Parameters and GPT-3 with Switch Transformers – a path to AGI?, by Kevin Vu - Oct 1, 2021.
  Ever larger models churning on increasingly faster machines suggest a potential path toward smarter AI, such as with the massive GPT-3 language model. However, new, more lean, approaches are being conceived and explored that may rival these super-models, which could lead to a future with more efficient implementations of advanced AI-driven systems.

  AGI, Deep Learning, GPT-3, Transformer

• How to Auto-Detect the Date/Datetime Columns and Set Their Datatype When Reading a CSV File in Pandas, by David B Rosen (PhD) - Oct 1, 2021.
  When read_csv( ) reads e.g. “2021-03-04” and “2021-03-04 21:37:01.123” as mere “object” datatypes, often you can simply auto-convert them all at once to true datetime datatypes.

  Data Processing, Pandas, Python