How to Write dbt Macros Using Jinja2
A tutorial and cheatsheet on writing your first dbt macro Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash I recently came across a problem that stumped me. Aren’t those the best? They … Read more
Month: March 2022
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports Foreign Data Wrapper for Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases
Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora is three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases with … Read more
How to read a label on a wine bottle using computer vision ? (Part 3)
Welcome back to this series of articles. As a reminder, in our last two articles (Part 1, Part 2) we explored two different methods to try and detect the position … Read more
COVID-19 Data Hub Paper Published in Nature Scientific Data
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R Shiny in Life Sciences – Top 7 Dashboard Examples
Today we bring you 7 dashboard examples of R Shiny in life sciences. R Shiny is one of the easiest ways for developers to make production-ready dashboards when speed and … Read more
Introducing ML Performance Tracing
Evolution of ML troubleshooting: image by author Part Two In a Series On ML Troubleshooting In part one of this content series, we covered how painful ML troubleshooting is today … Read more
Evaluating search relevance on-demand with crowdsourcing
5 insider tips for crowdsourcing search relevance evaluations Photo by the author Introduction One of the most essential e-commerce tasks today is search relevance evaluation. Your online marketplace relies on … Read more
Search through your ecological data with the ‘grep()’ function
[This article was first published on R on R (for ecology), and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share … Read more
Apache Airflow for Data Science — How to Download Files from Amazon S3
Download any file from Amazon S3 (AWS) with a couple of lines of Python code Photo by imgix on Unsplash By now, you know how to upload local files to … Read more
Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station data
It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The satellite imagery from the Hunga Tonga eruption is unreal. Direct your attention … Read more
Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – March 2022
Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for … Read more
Data Visualization Theory: An Introduction
Data Science Theory Key Data Visualization Theory needed in Data Science Image by Author Telling a story is a very important part of any Data Scientist’s job. In this article … Read more
What is a Tensor in Deep Learning?
A definition in simple terms with examples Image by author What is a tensor, exactly? Most deep learning practitioners know about them but can’t pinpoint an exact definition. TensorFlow, PyTorch: … Read more
Deep Learning, Reinforcement learning, Optimal Control, what a mess!
There are a lot of buzzing keywords going around in the area of computational intelligence. You might know about deep learning, reinforcement learning, or optimal control separately, how they work, … Read more
Learn Excel’s Powerful Tools for Linear Regression
Plus, Compare How R and Python Stack Up With the Same Data Photo by Will Francis on Unsplash Linear Regression is the most common type of regression analysis and is … Read more
Mean, Median and Mode: What Are They and When Should You Use Them?
Statistics 101 You probably remember Mean, Median, and Mode from high school stats classes but they are often misused. We look at how you should use them — with Python … Read more
Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content
This blog has been co-authored by Jessie Jia, Senior Program Manager, Azure Networking and Gunjan Jain, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. In 2019, we launched Azure Front Door to bring … Read more
Simulating time-to-event outcomes with non-proportional hazards
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rsnps 0.5.0: New ncbi_snp_query() Features
TL;DR rsnps is a package that enables the retrieval of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from the NCBI’s dbSNP database and openSNP by providing wrappers for the APIs. Single nucleotide … Read more
How to download Kobotoolbox data in R
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Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot
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scikit-learn models in R with reticulate
I have tried to venture into Python several times over the years. The language itself seems simple enough to learn but as someone who has only ever used R (and … Read more
A quick guide for tracking Pytorch Experiments using Neptune.ai
A demonstration of this platform can help you to track your model results efficiently Photo by Paige Cody on Unsplash This article is in continuation with the story An intuitive … Read more
SourceCodeAI — Deep Learning for Source Code — Why and How
Photo by Enric Cruz López from Pexels Source code AI recently became a popular topic; more than ever before companies are spending efforts in that direction, trying to leverage it … Read more
My 3-Step Method to Create a Story With Data
Tips to generate relevant and actionable insights Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Data storytelling is an important soft skill to develop as a data professional but there’s not much information … Read more
5 real handy python decorators for analyzing/debugging your code
Apply these handy, general-purpose decorators directly to your code Beautifully decorated (image by Saba Sayad on Unsplash) The beauty of decorators is that they are really easy to apply but … Read more
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now offers real-time streaming for higher scale and low latency scenarios
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports real-time streaming that helps businesses access Contact Lens analytics in real-time, eliminating the need to constantly make requests from existing Contact Lens API with … Read more
Sylhet R User Group in Bangladesh Hopes to Get Back on Track with Physical Events
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Comprehensions In Python
What comprehensions are in Python, and why they are so useful (image by altoff on Pixabay) Python is a language that is known for having a lot of tricks up … Read more
Sticky Notes in Jupyter Notebook
Love using post-it notes? It is now available in Jupyter Notebooks Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash Jupyter Notebook is a popular choice for Integrated Development Environment (IDE) amongst Data … Read more
The Battle of Interactive Geographic Visualization Part 6 — Greppo
PYTHON. DATA SCIENCE. GEOVISUALIZATION Using the Greppo Library to Create Beautiful, Interactive Geoplots Photo by Tobias on Unsplash In this series, we have already identified, five (5) ways of making … Read more
Software Engineering Tools and Best Practices for Data Science
With great code comes great machine learning Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash If you’re into data science, you’re probably familiar with this workflow: you start a project by firing … Read more
Geometric Priors I
Groups, Representations, Invariance & Equivariance A series of blog posts that summarize the Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) Course, at AMMI program; African Master’s of Machine Intelligence, taught by Michael Bronstein, … Read more
Making Sense of Text in a Hurry: A Regular Expressions Primer
Photo by Dinnow (Pexels.com) Whether you are brand new to regex and have text data you’d like to make sense of, or you have experience laboring over stack overflow questions … Read more
I tried scaling SageMaker Pipeline executions and this happened
Making your MLOps pipeline more resilient with retry policies Yesterday I used SageMaker Pipelines to automate the workflow of a forecasting project. I launched 3 concurrent pipeline executions to train … Read more
Elbow detection for clustering using splines
Photo by Ernest Porzi on Unsplash To define intelligence, we often refer to the capacity to weave links between different knowledge or subjects. It is then a question of the … Read more
How to Build a Complete Classification Model in R and caret
Machine Learning A complete example of how to run a classification task, using R and the caret package Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash R is a programming language used … Read more
Nuclear Threat Projection with Neural Network Time Series Forecasting
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Kadane’s algorithm – finding maximum sum in contigous sub-array
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Using R/fitzRoy to ask: how many times a V/AFL team with the same lineup has played together?
If you sit in the intersection of “likes Australian Rules football / finds sport statistics interesting / is on Twitter”, you’ve probably come across Swamp. One of his recent tweets … Read more
An R alternative to pairs for -omics QC
Category Tags Introduction The Problem: I’ve got a couple of problems with the commonly used “pairs” plot in R for quality control in -omics data. (1) It’s not that space-efficient … Read more
RObservations #27: Canadian Prime Minister’s Dataset (my “first” Kaggle submission)
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Shiny Wordle Word Journey
A couple of weeks ago, Winston Chang showed how to create a Wordle app in Shiny in a four-part video series. Go watch the video series to see how he … Read more
February 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
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3 Important Tips for Getting Into Data Science — If You’re Coming From a Computer Science…
The transition might not be as straightforward as you think. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Data science seems to be all the rage these days, with people from every … Read more
Master Python Comprehensions
Write code aiming for simplicity and readability Photo by Ksenia Makagonova, Unsplash. One of the most significant advantages of Python is that it’s a highly expressive language. Without much boilerplate, … Read more
Plotting Time Series Boxplots
Learn how to plot time series boxplots using matplotlib and Seaborn Photo by Agê Barros on Unsplash A time series dataset is a collection of data that are time-indexed and … Read more
Deep Learning: Faster, Better, and Free, in 3 Easy Steps
The Hands-on RL course intermezzo Tired of training deep learning models on your laptop, at the speed of… a turtle? 🐢 Not enthusiastic about buying an expensive GPU or optimizing … Read more
Schema specification for your pandas DataFrames
Introducing typedframe — an easy way to write schemas for your DataFrames for documentation and run-time validation Pandas is a great tool, but it was designed for live-coding experimentation, and … Read more
A Practical Guide on K-Means Clustering
Going beyond the theory and getting the best out of your K-Means clustering algorithm Iterations in KMeans. Original GIF. What is KMeans?a. Python implementation Things to know before using KMeansa. … Read more