ISSUE 290 ·   June 16, 2020        

In the News

How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic

As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks?
New York Times

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Tools and Techniques

Announcing Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a visual tool that helps you find and explore academic papers. Enter a title, keywords, a DOI, or paper URL and get back a visual graph that shows connected and related papers that are arranged according to similarity. This looks super useful.
Connected Papers

Recent database technology to have on your radar

Here are three new database technologies that are worth knowing about. The article summarizes features, things to like, and questions for the project. The related discussion on Hacker News is also worthwhile.
Luc Perkins Blog

What I Love about Scrum for Data Science

Good introduction to the Scrum development framework and ways it could be applied to data science work. 
Eugene Yan

tslearn

tslearn is a machine learning toolkit for the analysis of time series data. It's a Python package that builds on scikit-learn, numpy and scipy libraries. The latest release includes a user's guide with a gallery of examples, an API reference, and a quick-start guide.
The Jupyter Blog

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Resources

Black Lives Matter Datasets

For a selection of key datasets that are related to the Black Lives Matter protests, police violence, police reforms, police militarization, and tech’s response, check out this issue of the Data is Plural newsletter.
Data is Plural

AI tools aim to tame the coronavirus literature

Since January 1, more than 30,000 articles have been published about COVID-19. Here's an overview of some of the best tools being developed that help researchers keep up and find what they need.
Nature

Data Viz

Truncating the Y-Axis: Threat or Menace?

Is it ever okay to truncate the y-axis of a graph? This post summarizes a recent paper that examines the recurrent debate and why it matters.
Tableau Engineering Blog

Dexplot

Dexplot is a new Python library for creating data visualizations via a simple and consistent API. The design is inspired by Seaborn but it's intended to address some missing features and to be more flexible and easier to use.
Dexplo

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