The Best Learning Paths for AI and Data Leadership
Making Data Useful How to muscle up on data-related topics quickly (Feeling impatient? Scroll past the text and cat photo to get the learning paths!) Your author. First, may I … Read more
Month: April 2023
Data Analysis Made Easy: Using LLMs to Automate Tedious Tasks
A high quality digital art view of a robot in the centre, who is able to do technical coding, write amazing prose and do strategic thinking (author created, with DALL-E). … Read more
What is dbt (data build tool) and When should you use it?
Discover the Hidden Benefits and Drawbacks of dbt Image by Author If your organization is looking to create a data-driven product, you should consider having efficient data pipelines to: Stay … Read more
Hyperbolic Deep Reinforcement Learning
RL meets hyperbolic geometry Many problems in Reinforcement Learning manifest a hierarchical tree-like nature. Hyperbolic spaces, which can be conceptualised as continuous analogies of trees, are thus suitable candidates to … Read more
How to R code faster with ChatGPT
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Sentiment Analysis Using Google Translate (Pt. 4 – A Painful Sight)
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The Perfect Setup for Ubuntu and R (and how to install/update RStudio with apt install rstudio/apt update)
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operation impossible
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Yet Another Movie: IMDB Top 250 movies
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Stories Data Speak 2023-04-29 05:33:17
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Supreme Annotations Plot Redux & An OJS Plot↔ggplot2 Rosetta Stone
Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the … Read more
Whisper JAX vs PyTorch: Uncovering the Truth about ASR Performance on GPUs
Deep Dive into Automatic Speech Recognition: Benchmarking Whisper JAX and PyTorch Implementations Across Platforms In the world of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), speed and accuracy are of great importance. The … Read more
Cleaning Up Confluence Chaos: A Python and BERTopic Quest
A tale of taming unruly documents to create the ultimate GPT-based chatbot Photo by Rick Mason on Unsplash Picture this: you’re at a rapidly growing tech company, and you’ve been … Read more
Building models with {shiny} and {tidyAML} Part 4
This is a Shiny app for building models using the {tidyAML} which is based on the tidymodels package in R. The app allows you to upload your own data or … Read more
How Useful is F-test in Linear Regression?
Not very much, but we can improve it. Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash The F-test statistic for joint significance of the slope coefficients of a regression is routinely reported … Read more
The Case Against Enterprise LLMs
Opinion A sober perspective as to why boring is best, even for AI Over the last few weeks, we’ve had a trove of custom LLM requests from clients and partners. … Read more
To lend funds or not to lend is the question?
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Fisheye effect with R
The fisheye function below distorts a bitmap image with a fisheye effect or an anti-fisheye effect (rho > 0.5 or rho < 0.5). fisheye_xy <- function(x, y, rho, stick) { … Read more
Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database (DB) instances
AWS Graviton3 processors are the latest generation of custom-designed AWS Graviton processors built on the AWS Nitro System. The Graviton3 processors offer several improvements over the second-generation Graviton processors. Graviton3-based … Read more
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports workspace configuration with version 9.4 option
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. Since … Read more
AWS Verified Access is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure access to your corporate applications without using a VPN. Built based on AWS Zero … Read more
Committed use discounts for RHEL and RHEL for SAP now available on Compute EngineCommitted use discounts for RHEL and RHEL for SAP now available on Compute EngineProduct ManagerProduct Manager
Optimizing your costs is a major priority for us here at Google Cloud. We are pleased to announce the general availability of committed use discounts (“CUDs”) for Red Hat Enterprise … Read more
Understanding NeRFs
A massive breakthrough in scene representation (Photo by nuddle on Unsplash) As we have seen with methods like DeepSDF [2] and SRNs [4], encoding 3D objects and scenes within the … Read more
Running Jaffle Shop dbt Project in Docker
A containerised version of the popular Jaffle Shop dbt project Photo by Ryan Howerter on Unsplash If you are new to data build tool (dbt) you have probably come across … Read more
Seeking a New Maintainer for the Popular R Package installr
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Automating RMarkdown/Quarto reports workshop
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WrappR for Rstudio: Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Wrap Highlighted Text With Custom Code
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How to Build Popularity-Based Recommenders with Polars
Basic recommenders that are easy to understand and implement, as well as fast to train Published in · 7 min read · 1 hour ago Created by me on dreamstudio.ai. … Read more
How to Reduce Your Master Data Management Bill
Grab the low-hanging fruits with open-source Published in · 9 min read · 2 hours ago Master Data Management, or MDM, is commercial vendors’ buzzword for an entity resolution framework. … Read more
How Data Science Helped Sherlock Holmes Find a Murderer
Solve the “Who Killed the Duke of Densmore” mystery using graph theory, constraint programming, and mixed-integer linear programming Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash Inventory management, portfolio optimization, machine scheduling, … Read more
A Framework for Building a Production-Ready Feature Engineering Pipeline
Lesson 1: Batch Serving. Feature Stores. Feature Engineering Pipelines. Photo by Hassan Pasha on Unsplash This tutorial represents lesson 1 out of a 7-lesson course that will walk you step-by-step … Read more
OCR-Free Document Data Extraction with Transformers (1/2)
Donut versus Pix2Struct on custom data Image by author (with) Donut and Pix2Struct are image-to-text models that combine the simplicity of pure pixel inputs with visual language understanding tasks. Simply … Read more
Towards Stand-Alone Self-Attention in Vision
A deep dive into the application of the transformer architecture and its self-attention operation for vision Image created by author using craiyon AI While self-attention is already widely adopted in … Read more
From Basic Gates to Deep Neural Networks: The Definitive Perceptron Tutorial
Towards Mastering AI Mathematics, binary classification, logic gates, and more TL;DR The world of perceptrons is fascinating. Perceptron models are the building blocks of modern artificial intelligence. This blog post … Read more
March 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
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How to create a clickable world cloud with wordcloud2 and Shiny
Word clouds are a visual representation of text data where words are arranged in a cluster, with the size of each word reflecting its frequency or importance in the data … Read more
Amazon Location Service adds support for long distance matrix routing
Today, Amazon Location Service added support for long distance matrix routing, making it easier for customers to quickly calculate driving time and driving distance between multiple origins and destinations, no … Read more
Prediction in Various Logistic Regression Models (Part 2)
Statistics in R Series Photo by Vladimir Fedotov on Unsplash Introduction We have covered logistic regression models for both binary and ordinal data and also demonstrated how to implement the … Read more
Performing Image Annotation using Python and OpenCV
Learn how to create bounding boxes for your images Photo by Héctor J. Rivas on Unsplash One of the common tasks in deep learning is object detection, a process in … Read more
Error Handling in R and Python
One thing is true: if you ever coded, you faced an error. Period. Errors are not always a bad thing. I agree that they can drive us mad sometimes, especially … Read more
A Primer on Linear Algebra: Part 2
A gentle refresher on essential concepts and operations for data science Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash Introduction In my previous post, I introduced some of the operations and concepts … Read more
Making Sense of the Promise (and Risks) of Large Language Models
While ChatGPT and similar tools have monopolized much of our collective attention in recent months, large language models (LLMs)—the infrastructure behind all those chat outputs we endlessly share, screenshot, and … Read more
Managing IP with Microsoft Azure and Cliosoft
This blog was co-authored by Fernando Aznar Cornejo, AMD Partner Development Manager; Nathaniel Lum, Senior Applications Engineer, Cliosoft; Amit Varde, Director – Solutions Engineering, Cliosoft. Intellectual Property (IP) is a … Read more
What’s new in Azure Data & AI: Helping organizations manage the data deluge
When I meet with customers and partners, one thing is clear: nearly every organization is looking to accelerate its use of data to drive strategic outcomes. Generating data isn’t the … Read more
Effectively Annotate Text Data for Transformers via Active Learning + Re-labeling
Boost Transformer model performance with Active Learning assisted data labeling ActiveLab chooses which data you should (re)label to train a more effective model. Given the same labeling budget, ActiveLab outperforms … Read more
Generative AI for Social Work Students: Part II
Essential knowledge, abilities, and practices with AI Published in · 6 min read · 1 hour ago Image by the author created using Midjourney. This article is the second in … Read more
How to Sort a Data Frame by Multiple Columns in R
Sorting data frames in R programming language Photo by Andre Taissin on Unsplash R is a programming language widely used by statisticians and machine learning scientists. DataFrames are powerful R … Read more
Multivariate Process Control by Principal Component Analysis Using T² and Q errors
Using and interpreting Hotelling’s T² and Squared Prediction Error Q in anomaly detection systems Image from geralt on Pixabay A substantial part of my job as a data scientist consists … Read more
How to Connect to Your AWS EC2 Instance with Visual Studio Code
A quick and easy guide to accessing remote servers with VS Code Photo by John Barkiple on Unsplash Introduction Visual Studio Code is without a doubt my favorite IDE. It’s … Read more
Engineering Features for Contextual Recommendation Engines
Analysis of distinct cases where contextual information dominates Image via VectorStock under license to Andrew Charabin From entertainment applications to dating platforms, social networking sites to retail, recommendation engines play … Read more