ISSUE 283 ·   April 28, 2020        

Office Hours 😎

It's been awhile since I've opened up my calendar for virtual office hours but I'm going to dedicate more time to helping where I can.

To start off some discussions, how is your organization and/or team handling the various crises of 2020?  And good or bad, how's that going?

If you're interested in discussing, submit your contact info and I'll respond with a scheduling link for a 20 minute Zoom call.

All conversations will be confidential and I'll help with ideas, resources, and anything that's shareable and useful that I learn along the way - especially as those things relate to data teams.

Looking forward to connecting!

-Lon

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Tools and Techniques

Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases

Nice collection of insights that are tailored for developers who need to work with databases even though it's not their specialty.
Jaana Dogan

Google Drive is production

Vicki Boykis' latest post takes a look at some of the many, creative ways that people use Google Drive. In "production!"
Normcore Tech

Introducing ndindex

ndindex is a new library for manipulating indices of NumPy arrays. If you've ever banged your head against the wall trying to do slice arithmetic in Python, this is the library for you.
Quansight Labs

AI Paper Reading Club

Lex Fridman is starting an AI paper reading club! One paper each week. One person presents and drives the discussion. This week, Lex kicks it off with a discussion of the 1950 "Turing Test" paper. All are welcome to talk or just listen. Ties optional.  Sign up here >>
YouTube | Lex Fridman

PyBoy

Great tool for getting started with AI. PyBoy is a Game Boy emulator that's written in Python and focused on scripting, AI and learning.
GitHub | Mads Ynddal

Automatic Code Cleaning in R with Rclean

Rclean makes it easy to isolate the code that's needed for reproducing your results.
rOpenSci

TLDR Newsletter - Byte Sized News for Techies

TLDR is a daily, curated newsletter with links and TLDRs of the most interesting stories in tech, science, and programming!
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Resources

Recommender Systems

The PDF version of this popular text by Charu C. Aggarwal is free to download through July.
Springer

Stanford CS229: Machine Learning - Fall 2018

Stanford recently updated the online materials for the popular Machine Learning course, CS 229. This is a key set of lectures by Andrew Ng that goes into more depth than his well-known Machine Learning course on Coursera. Also, see the corresponding course page for notes, problem sets, and additional resources.
YouTube | Stanford Online

Data Viz

Uncertainty Visualization

This new chapter for the Handbook of Computational Statistics and Data Science explores techniques for presenting uncertainty and the reasons why uncertainty visualization is so often confusing.
SPACE Lab

A Step-by-Step Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

This step by step tutorial walks through getting the data, loading the imagery, and creating 3D visualizations with rayshader. Code included.
Tyler Morgan-Wall

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