ISSUE 451 · September 5, 2023

Trends

The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year

It's early days still, but the results of a recent McKinsey Global Survey show that generative AI is rapidly being adopted in the workplace. This article walks through the survey results and explores who's using AI and how.
McKinsey & Company

Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee

When we talk about web scraping, what we’re really talking about is data access. All the world’s knowledge is available for the taking on the Internet, and web scraping is how companies acquire it at scale. But the question of who can access and use that data, and for what purposes, is a tricky legal question, which gets trickier the deeper you dig.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog | Kieran McCarthy

Sponsored Link

Amazon Bedrock offers access to multiple generative AI models

The emergence of open source LLMs led to the potential generation of toxic outputs. Amazon Bedrock, the latest step in the company’s ongoing effort to democratize ML, uses Amazon’s Titan FM to help customers detect and remove harmful content in inputs and filter model outputs.

Posts & Tutorials

Explaining The Postgres Meme

A popular meme called "The SQL Iceberg" divides SQL into 7 levels. At the top, the topics are high-level and include things like data types and simple queries. As you descend, topics get increasingly complex until eventually, you reach the "Pitch Black Zone," which covers esoteric and cutting-edge topics. This post explores all 7 levels as applied to PostgreSQL and as you descend, you're sure to learn something useful.
Aryan Ebrahimpour

Geographic data analysis in R and Python

Nice post for showing how python and R differ for analyzing geographic vector data. Code for both languages is offered, side by side, to show how each be used to read, plot, and analyze geographic vector data.
geocompx | Robin Lovelace, et al. 

Alternatives to box plots

Box plots are a simple way to summarize data but that simplicity can hide the underlying structure of the data and unintentionally mislead readers. This post takes a look at the issues and shows how beeswarm and raincloud plots can be useful alternatives. 
ALA Labs | Dax Kellie and Shandiya Balasubramaniam

How to Create Polar Histograms with Python

Polar histograms are useful when you have too many values for a standard bar chart because the circular shape allows you to show more information in the same area. This step by step tutorial shows how they work and how to create them using Python and Matplotlib.
DEV | Oscar Leo

Tools & Code

Spotlight

Spotlight is a data exploration and analysis tool for multimodal datasets. It integrates seamlessly with pandas and supports rich data types like images, videos, and meshes. You can load anything that fits in a DataFrame and view it through a customizable GUI featuring multiple interactive widgets: a data table, histograms, scatter plots, and more.
GitHub | Renumics 

Resources

Database of Databases

This "database of databases" contains background information, technical overviews and key links for over 900 database management systems. Go to the "Browse" tab for filters that make it easy to zero-in on databases that match specific criteria, such as architecture, license type, data model, fault tolerance and more.
Carnegie Mellon Database Group

List of ML and AI conferences in 2023 and 2024

Looking for a conference to attend, sponsor or submit a talk to? This latest list from Tryolabs includes 40+ machine learning conferences around the world. There are a lot of discounts here too and many of the conferences have virtual options.
Tryolabs

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