ISSUE 431 · April 11, 2023
Trends
2023 State of AI in 14 Charts
The 2023 AI Index from Stanford HAI is out, covering the world of artificial intelligence from technical performance achievements, ethics advances, education and policy trends to economic impact, R&D, and the hiring and jobs scene. This post covers the key points in 14 charts.
Stanford HAI | Shana Lynch
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Tutorials & Opinions
Polars for initial data analysis, Polars for production
Initial data analysis has different goals and requirements than your final, production data analysis. This tutorial explores the differences and shows how Polars supports both.
Python⇒Speed | Itamar Turner-Trauring
R is a game engine, fight me
R can do a lot more than statistical data analysis. Follow the links for board games, action games, word games, puzzles, multi-player games, simulations, text-based games, and more!
Matt Dray
Descriptive statistics: comparisons in JavaScript, Python, SQL, R, and Excel
This notebook makes it easy to compare common descriptive statistics for data analysis in JavaScript, Python, SQL, R, and Excel. Covers mean, median, standard deviation, mean values by group, percentiles, rank values, and more.
Observable | Allison Horst and Paul Buffa
Unit Testing Analytics Code
If you're not testing your code, how do you know it actually works? This post is a nice introduction to unit testing, including real-world examples, sample code, and links to libraries that simplify the process.
Matt Kaye
Tools & Code
Welcoming pandas 2.0
If you use pandas, there are some key things to know about the recent 2.0 release. Along with bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features, there are some enforced deprecations that could break existing code. This post highlights the new features and things to watch out for.
Patrick Hoefler
Data Visualization
How I Created a Data Visualization With Zero Coding Skills, Thanks to ChatGPT
If you ask the right questions, ChatGPT will help you access data, design visualizations, and even write the code! This tutorial shows how.
Nightingale | Soonk Paik
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