ISSUE 373 · February 8, 2022
Insight
The Economics of Data Businesses
Great article about how data businesses work, how they're different than other types of tech businesses, why it's hard for data businesses to find investors, and what it takes to make these businesses worthwhile. If you're interested in getting involved in a business where data is the product, this is a must-read. Check out the resources at the end too.
Pivotal | Abraham Thomas
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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions
Modern ML Monitoring: Research Challenges
In this final part of a 4-part series, Shreya Shankar uses real-world post-deployment issues to explore research challenges and solution ideas for ML monitoring which, as she puts it, is a mess. This post covers a variety of issues including monitoring and diagnosing performance issues, visualizations, datasets and benchmarks.
Shreya Shankar
Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
A new approach for training deep neural networks could help make AI more accessible to people without deep pockets and access to big data. Here's a high-level look at how it works.
Quanta Magazine | Anil Ananthaswamy
Everything gets a package: Python data science setup
It may sound like overkill but if you keep your Python projects organized as described here, your projects will always be consistent, portable and reproducible. Spinning up a quick jupyter notebook to check something out? Build a package first. This post starts with the why's and shows how to simplify the process.
Ethan Rosenthal
Understanding “statistical significance” and p-values
Using simple examples, this post makes it easy to understand how statistical significance and p-values work.
For-loops and piep kicks
The 7 Best ELT Tools for Data Warehouses
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Code & Tools
Mercury
Mercury is a simple web framework that converts Python Notebooks into interactive web applications. Just add a simple YAML header and deploy it to your Mercury server.
GitHub | mljar
Career
AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop
Overall, tech salaries were up last year but not for machine learning professionals. This article is based on a report from Dice that explores U.S. tech salaries and where the money is flowing now.
IEEE Spectrum
Data Visualization
Expansion for Continuous Scales
ggplot2's expansion function can help you add space between your data and the axes but many people aren't familiar with it. In this new cheatsheet, Christian Burkhart offers an intuitive approach for understanding how to use the expansion function for continuous scales.
Christian Burkhart
Data Visualization - State of the Industry Survey
Roles, salaries, tech stacks, problems, trends and much more are covered in this report from a recent survey of data visualization practioners around the world. This post offers a nice summary of the results. For details, there's a link at the top to download the full report.
Data Visualization Society
Outlier
River Runner Global
Awesome interactive visualization. Click to drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch its path to wherever it ends up. Start with this shortlist of interesting paths >>
Sam Learner
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