ISSUE 298 ·   August 11, 2020        

Insight

Don’t Tell Your Data Team’s ROI Story

The next time you get asked to justify the ROI for your team, don't. Sit back, and let others tell the story for you.
Hex | Barry McCardel 

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Tools & Techniques

Dagster: The Data Orchestrator

Great overview of an important project that helps bridge the gap between data science and engineering.
Dagster | Nick Schrock

Unbundling Data Science Workflows 

Metaflow is an open-source framework that's designed to help data science teams build and manage their own end-to-end workflows. This article explores how Metaflow works and introduces its new job scheduler integration with AWS Step Functions.
Netflix Tech Blog

Git for Data: Not a Silver Bullet

There's a lot of talk about version control for data but oftentimes, that's not what's needed. Here's how to think about data versioning and what most organizations should do instead.
Locally Optimistic | Michael Kaminsky 

Multi-Armed Bandits & Experimentation at Stitch Fix

At Stitch Fix, Multi-armed bandits have become a popular alternative to traditional A/B testing for online experimentation. This post explains some of the theory behind multi-armed bandits and explores how StitchFix has integrated them into their experimentation platform. 
MultiThreaded | Brian Amadio

Elyra reaches 1.0.0

The Elyra Toolkit is a new open source project that extends the JupyterLab user interface to simplify the development of data science and AI models. This 1.0.0 release announcement is a great overview of the project and its uses.
 Jupyter Blog

Resources

List of ML and DL Conferences in 2020

At this point in the pandemic, it's reasonable to think that conferences are done for awhile. But check out this list of active events via TyroLabs. They're showing more than 50 conferences around the world for what's left of 2020! Most have gone virtual and offer good discounts. 
Tryolabs

Data Visualization

Building dashboards for operational visibility

It's easy to build a dashboard that makes sense to the creator. But building something that's useful is a different story. This article is gold.
Amazon Builders Library | John O'Shea

Continue, Pivot, or Put it Down

Apparently, this post started as a "failure blog" for documenting the stories that The Pudding never published. But along the way, it became a post about The Pudding's process to go from an idea to a data story. In the end, there are pivots and good-byes and none are "failures."
The Pudding | Amber Thomas

Job Board

New on the Job Board:

• Senior Data Scientist @ American Red Cross (remote)
• Director of Data Science @ Mode (remote)
• Data Lead @ Mozilla (remote)
• Data Scientist (entry-level) @ Saturn Cloud (remote)
• Data Scientist @ Stanford (Stanford, CA)

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