ISSUE 369  ·   January 11, 2022

Insight

Data to engineers ratio: A deep dive into 50 top European tech companies

"Data-driven" isn't just a trendy buzzword. It’s how modern companies win. Using LinkedIn data to analyze the data-to-engineers ratio for top European tech companies, Mikkel Dengsøe takes a look at the data hiring arms race.
Inside Data | Mikkel Dengsøe

Data's trillion dollar question mark

When Martin Casado, a partner at Andresseen Horowitz, was asked why he thought the data industry was a trillion dollar market, he responded, “Workday, Salesforce, Adobe—they’re going to be reimplemented as apps on top of the data layer.” Maybe. But why? And perhaps more importantly, how?...
Benn Stancil

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To Understand Language is to Understand Generalization

Everyone wants machine learning models to generalize better but what does that mean, exactly? In this post, Eric Jang argues that Generalization is Language and suggests how Language models might be reused as "generalization modules" for non-NLP domains.
Eric Jang

Pricing Homes like Agents Do

Nice "tutorial" that walks through a practical approach to building a "human-in-charge" AI-assisted system for pricing houses. There isn't code here. It's fairly high-level but it does a great job at explaining implementation considerations along the way.
AI@Compass

How to Use TomTom Data for Predictive Modeling

This introductory, step-by-step tutorial shows how to access TomTom traffic data and use common tools like Jupyter, NumPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn to make traffic predictions.
TomTom Developers Blog

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Resources

Deep Learning Interviews

This interview prep book contains hundreds of fully solved job interview questions covering a wide range of topics in AI.
arXiv | Shlomo Kashani and Amir Ivry

Career

Managing the First Year

Strong Independent Contributors are natural candidates for management but the roles are very different. In this post, Alex Gold explores his first, and possibly most challenging year as a data science manager. If you've ever wondered what that path looks like from the inside, this is a great read.
Alex Gold

25 Tips for Purposeful Career Planning

For a lot of people, career planning is an occasional and haphazard activity but if you don't know where you're going, chances are, you're going to end up somewhere else. In this long-read from First Round, leaders from a variety of industries offer tips and tactical approaches to help you plan and develop the best career path for you.
First Round

Data Visualization

geomtextpath

geomtextpath is an R package that makes it easy to create arbitrary, curved text paths in ggplot2. There are a lot of practical uses for this. Check out the examples!
GitHub | Allan Cameron

Spriral Graphs

Great discussion about the Omicron Spiral Graph from a recent New York Times article. The graph quickly went viral in data viz circles and was reimplemented and improved upon multiple times along the way. This thread captures a lot of the nuances and definitely follow Amelia Wattenberger's comments for an example you can play with.
Twitter | Amanda Makulec MPH

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