ISSUE 355  ·   September 28, 2021

Insight

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns

Deep learning's rise to fame has been meteoric over the past few years but the road ahead will be bumpy. This is an accessible look at deep learning's biggest challenges and how it can evolve from here.
IEEE Spectrum

Top Places to Work for Data Scientists

The types of organizations that are good to work for change as your career evolves. This post takes a look at considerations for different phases of a data science career and offers a shortlist of organizations that are well suited for each phase. The focus is U.S. organizations but there are useful insights here regardless of where you are in the world.
Gradient Flow

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Understanding Bias in AI: What is it, how to identify it, and how to mitigate it.

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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions

The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

Machine learning seems to be all the rage these days but for a lot of reasons, its generally not the best place to start. Here's why and what to do instead.
Eugene Yan

Reaching MLE (machine learning enlightenment)

Once upon a time, "on a crisp cloudless morning in early fall, a machine learning engineer left her home to seek the answers that she could not find, even in the newly-optimized Google results..."
Vicki Boykis

Toloka: Data Labeling for Machine Learning

Toloka is a crowdsourced data labeling platform that handles large-scale data collection and annotation projects for machine learning at any scale. Our platform helps to improve models of any kind, including those in NLP, computer vision, chat bots, voice assistants, search and information retrieval. Learn more.
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Code & Tools

JupyterLab Desktop App now available!

JupyterLab now has a standalone, desktop application. JupyterLab App is a self-contained, cross-platform application that bundles a Python environment with several popular libraries and is ready to use in scientific computing and data science workflows.
The Jupyter Blog | Mehmet Bektas

Merlion: A Machine Learning Library for Time Series

Merlion is a new Python library for time series intelligence that supports a variety of learning tasks, including forecasting and anomaly detection. It provides an end-to-end framework and aims to be a one stop solution for rapidly developing time series models.
GitHub | Salesforce Research

Data Visualization

Sexy up your logistic regression model 

In this tutorial, Solomon Kurz offers a nice approach for displaying the results of a logistic regression model using R's ggdist package.
A. Solomon Kurz

Beyond Bar and Box Plots

Great set of slides that show how bar charts and box plots are often NOT the best choice for presenting data and what you should use instead. Covers a variety of options with lots of illustrations along the way. An accompanying tutorial using ggplot2 makes it easy to recreate and modify any of the examples for your own needs.
Cédric Scherer

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