Data Elixir - Data Elixir - Issue 451
ISSUE 451 · September 5, 2023TrendsThe state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout yearIt'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. Web Scraping for Me, But Not for TheeWhen 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. Sponsored LinkAmazon Bedrock offers access to multiple generative AI modelsThe 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 & TutorialsExplaining The Postgres MemeA 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. Geographic data analysis in R and PythonNice 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. Alternatives to box plotsBox 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. How to Create Polar Histograms with PythonPolar 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. Tools & CodeSpotlightSpotlight 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. ResourcesDatabase of DatabasesThis "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. List of ML and AI conferences in 2023 and 2024Looking 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. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here >> |
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Data Elixir - Issue 450
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
CSV: big, bad and ugly. Reproducibility with Jupyter. Geographic DS with Python. Natural language SQL engine. DS w/ sign language data.
Data Elixir - Issue 449
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Analysis of the data job market. LLM open challenges. Data viz with LLMs. Is probability frequentist or Bayesian? Opening career doors.
Data Elixir - Issue 448
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The weird world of LLMs. Learning how DBs work under the hood. Probabilistic ML: Advanced Topics. Packaging C code for R. Tactile data viz.
Data Elixir - Issue 447
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Finance Toolkit. Awesome Quarto. Do Machine ML models memorize or generalize? ML⇄DB seminar series. Functions are vectors.
Data Elixir - Issue 446
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Nix for data science. Telling Stories with Data. Design patterns for LLM systems & products. Practical guide to conjoint analysis. Treemaps.
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