ISSUE 364  ·   November 30, 2021

Insight

Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Do you think cloud stack consolidation is inevitable? Here's a reasonable take on how the next few years could play out.
Erik Bernhardsson

The Sobering Truth About Your Business Ideas

Through rigorous measurement and analysis, data science has shown that most business ideas will fail. It's not because of the data team. 
O'Reilly | Eric Colson, Daragh Sibley and Dave Spiegel

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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions

Doing Data Science for Social Good, Responsibly

There are a lot of "data for good" projects out there and they can be incredibly helpful for both participants and the organizations being served. But it's not all sunshine and roses. Here's what to watch for.
fast.ai | Rachel Thomas

Predicting viewership for Doctor Who episodes

Using a tidymodels workflow can make many modeling tasks more convenient, but sometimes you want more flexibility and control of how to handle your modeling objects. Here's how.
Julia Silge

Data Quality Validation for Python Dataframes

In this post, Miguel Cabrera explores libraries that check the data quality of Pandas and Spark dataframes. Covers basic usage and the pros and cons of Great Expectations, Pandera, and Deequ/PyDeequ.
Miguel Cabrera

Financial market data analysis with pandas

Nice introductory tutorial that walks through a simple time-series analysis of the stock market using pandas.
Matt Wright

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Code & Tools

BookNLP

BookNLP is a natural language processing pipeline that scales to books and other long documents in English. Handles a variety of tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, entity recognition, event tagging, and more. 
GitHub | booknlp

Career

What you can and cannot control in your job hunt

When you're looking for a job, most of the hiring process is out of your control. This post, from a data science interviewer perspective, focuses on what you can control and things you can do to stand out.
Eric J. Ma

Data Visualization

pybaobabdt

If you're building Decision Trees or Random Forests in Python, this new package uses colors and link widths to make it easy to interpret the visualizations, even when they're large. These are much nicer to work with than typical node-link visualizations.
pypi | Stef van den Elzen

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