ISSUE 363  ·   November 23, 2021

Insight

The missing analytics executive

Great post about data careers, organizational leadership, and how most people never make it. "Companies rarely have data leaders that sit among those at the top of the org chart..." That's a problem for everyone in data and the organizations we work for.
Benn Stancil

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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions

Estimating the geographic area of a real estate agent

At Compass, many tasks require knowing if a geographic area is relevant to a specific real estate agent and, conversely, who is the right agent for a specific area. It's more complicated than it might sound and, at Compass, they often use the problem as an interview question. This tutorial explores how — and why — they approach it using KDE.
Compass True North | Panos Ipeirotis and Foster Provost

Parameter Exploration at Lyft

Here's how the experimentation team at Lyft is using Bayesian Optimization to tune their marketplace using time-randomized experiments. Includes a discussion of issues they encountered with multivariate split-testing and an overview of how Gaussian processes and Bayesian Optimization works.
Lyft Engineering | Henry Quan

Get Ready For Confidential Computing

Nice overview of the Confidential Computing landscape, including use-cases, considerations, enabling technologies, and a survey of solutions for keeping data secure while it's in use.
Gradient Flow | Assaf Araki and Ben Lorica

Transformers from Scratch

This deep dive tutorial shows how to construct a transformer from scratch, starting with just counting and arithmetic as building blocks. This isn't a short tutorial but it's easy to follow and is designed to build intuition about how NLP applications work under the hood.
Brandon Rohrer

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Code & Tools

Aim: an easy-to-use, open-source experiment tracker

Aim is an open-source, self-hosted machine learning experiment tracking tool. It's good at tracking thousands of runs and enables easy analysis using either its UI or programmatically via its API.
Aimstack

Data Visualization

Clarity and Aesthetics in Visualization: Attention, Contrast, Grouping

In this second post in a series, Enrico Bertini explores how concepts from visual perception can help ensure that your visualizations are clear and easy to understand.
FILWD | Enrico Bertini with Daniel Kerrigan 

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