Data Elixir - Data Elixir - Issue 423
ISSUE 423 · February 7, 2023ProfilesHow Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to LearnDuolingo is known as an awesome language-learning app but the company's ambitions go much further. It's adaptive learning system, "Birdbrain," automates the traits of good tutors and it can be generalized to other topics, such as math. This article explores how Duolingo has evolved, the challenges, and where it's going. Sponsored LinkYou're invited! Business and technical leaders, learn how geospatial data can be a crucial input in understanding your market and economic landscape using AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift and Foursquare Studio. Date: February 15, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM (PST), 10:00 AM (BST), and 10:00 AM (SGT) Tutorials, Projects & OpinionsGetting to decisions faster in A/B tests, part 1This first post in a series explores approaches that are used in industry to get to faster decisions in A/B testing. This post is a literature review with links to lots of resources and summaries along the way. Examples of floating point problemsThere are a lot of scenarios where floating point numbers can lead to inaccurate, inconsistent, and unexpected results. This post explores how floating point numbers work, why they aren't "bad," and walks through 8 real-world problematic examples. Should You Measure the Value of a Data Team?Great post about the ROI of data teams. If you need to justify your team with an ROI, it's likely an organizational problem that's masquerading as a need for metrics. Metrics can help build trust with stakeholders, but they are not enough on their own. This post summarizes key arguments from several blog posts, podcasts, and discussions. Data innovations for understanding the oceanThe Ocean Data Challenge called for data-oriented solutions to boost ocean conservation and promote a sustainable "blue economy." This post highlights the eleven winning projects, which cover things like Ocean Data as a Service, buoy-based 5G, water quality monitoring, underwater drone applications, prediction services, and more. 🥖 Bake data privacy and security into your product from day one by avoiding these common mistakes. Tools & CodeOfficial MathWorks MATLAB kernel for JupyterThis package has been around for a while but previously, it only supported the ability to access MATLAB in a browser from environments like JupyterHub. With the new update, you can now run MATLAB code in Jupyter notebooks via a MATLAB kernel for Jupyter. ResourcesSoccer Analytics HandbookThis popular introduction to soccer analytics by Devin Pleuler includes tutorials, links to key libraries, research papers, posts, presentations, and books. It was originally written in 2020 and has been recently updated to incorporate changes in the analytics software ecosystem. Devin Pleuler is the Director of Analytics at Toronto FC. Understanding Large Language ModelsGreat post for getting started with large language models. There's a lot here, including links to key papers, summaries, and diagrams. Data VisualizationA Better Path Toward Criticizing Data VisualizationsData visualization critiques often take one of two approaches and neither are particularly constructive. Critiques should help expand data visualization skills and curb the spread of misleading data and graphs. This is an insightful post for achieving that. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here >> |
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Data Elixir - Issue 422
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Illustrated pandas. Simpson's paradox. How to approach resumes. The GPT analyst. Accelerating A/B tests.
Data Elixir - Issue 421
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Crafting a career. Pandas coding assistant. Google Research trends. DS cheatsheets. Framework for effective ML. Proximity analysis.
Data Elixir - Issue 420
Friday, January 20, 2023
Modern Polars. GPT from scratch. Predictions via mixed models. ML for weather and climate. GNU Octave for Jupyter.
Data Elixir - Issue 419
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Matrices and graphs. Visualization trends. SQL tells a human story. Combining R and Python. Flow fields tutorial. ML cheatsheets.
Data Elixir - Issue 418
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Top Python libraries in 2022. Soccer ⚽ Analytics Review. computing the eigendecomposition and SVD. How Shapley values work. Spatial data analysis with Python.
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