ISSUE 360  ·   November 2, 2021

Trends

The Next Big Challenge for Data is Organizational

These days, we have the tools to build the data world we want to live in but "you can't out-tool poor organization." Here's why the next big challenge for data is organizational, not technical.
Locally Optimistic | Bryan Offutt

Data and the almighty dollar

For most organizations, data stacks aren't cheap and making changes in one tool can set off a cascading set of confusing and interconnected charges elsewhere in the stack. For sure, that creates issues. And for some, there are burgeoning opportunities here.
Benn Stancil

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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow

Metaflow is an open-source framework that's designed to help data scientists build and manage their own end-to-end workflows. This announcement introduces the long-awaited GUI, which enables real-time monitoring and adds support for community plugins. This is a nice overview of the project and what it does.
Netflix Tech Blog

How to use PyTorch LSTMs for time series regression

Most introductions to LSTM models use natural language processing as the motivating application, but LSTMs can be a good option for multivariable time series regression and classification, as well. Here's how to structure the data and model to make it work.
The Crosstab Kite | Brian Kent

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Postman’s Data Team Works

In just six years, Postman has gone from a small side project to a unicorn with a 5 billion dollar valuation. In this inside look, Prukalpa walks through how the data team is organized and how responsibilities evolved during a year of rapid growth. 
Entrepreneur's Handbook | Prukalpa

Survival Analysis in Python

This tutorial introduces survival analysis using simple examples. There are two interactive notebooks here. The first walks through four ways to represent a distribution and the second shows how to use Kaplan-Meier estimation. This is well done and easy to follow.
Allen Downey

Getting Strategic Value from Data Analytics When Initial Attempts Fail

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Career

How to Leverage a Data Science Background as a Product Manager (PM)

Product management is a super hot — and competitive — career path in tech these days. Here's how the role is different for people who have a background in data science and how that gives you a unique edge for PM roles.
Anita Mehrotra

Data Visualization

Visualization Analysis & Design

This series of 18 short videos are from Tamara Munzner's recent workshop on Visualization Analysis and Design at the VIZ 2021 conference. Tamara is the author of the popular book by the same name, where she breaks down the what, why and how of data visualization.
YouTube | Tamara Munzner

Getting Started with Sparklines

Interactive sparklines! This tutorial uses lots of examples to show how they're useful and how to make them with the reactablefmtr R package.
Kyle Cuilla

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