ISSUE 421 · January 24, 2023
Trends
Google Research, 2022 & Beyond
In this annual retrospective, Jeff Dean highlights key trends in language, computer vision, multi-modal models, and generative machine learning models. This is a great post with lots of links to projects, workshops, papers, and repos along the way.
Google Research community via Jeff Dean
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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions
Mechanisms for Effective Machine Learning Projects
Here's a useful framework for improving a project's chance of success. This is written with machine learning projects in mind but the ideas here could be easily modified for other types of projects.
Eugene Yan
Why Polars uses less memory than Pandas
While Polars is mostly known for running faster than Pandas, if you use it right it can also use significantly less memory. This post shows how to optimize memory use in Pandas, how those compare to optimizations automatically provided by Polars, and when to intervene manually.
Itamar Turner-Trauring
Tools & Code
sketch
Sketch is an AI code-writing assistant that understands the context of your data. It installs as a pandas extension and offers utility functions that operate via natural language prompts. You can ask it questions about your data, ask it to create visualizations, and get python & pandas code directly. To see it in action, check out this 90 second demo video.
GitHub | Approximate Labs
Introducing anywidget
anywidget is a new Python library that makes it easy to create and share custom Jupyter Widgets. No fiddling with messy build configs, packaging, or bundlers. Just start coding!
Trevor Manz
Resources
Data Science Cheatsheets
This repo of graduate level cheatsheets covers data science, machine learning, computer science and more. This is an evolving collection and pull requests are encouraged.
GitHub | Merve Noyan
Career
Crafting a successful career framework
When you're planning for a career, don't just think about the next job. Work backwards from where you eventually want to be and think about the job after the next job. This is from Nikhyl Singhal's newsletter, The Skip, which has consistently insightful career advice, especially for Tech.
The Skip | Nikhyl Singhal
Data Visualization
6 easy ways to map population density in R
In this step-by-step tutorial, Milos Popovic shows six different ways to create population maps using R. Along with code, includes screenshots, rationale for using each map type, and links to related tutorials. Covers Choropleth maps, bubble maps, cartograms, dot density maps, grid maps, and spike maps.
Milos Popovic
Distance and proximity analysis in Python
A commmon task in spatial data analysis is to calculate the proximity to some resource. In this tutorial, Kyle Walker shows how to use Python to calculate proximity using two different methods: 1. straight-line (Euclidean) distances in a projected coordinate system and 2. using driving times derived from a hosted navigation service.
Kyle Walker
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