Always happy to see new MLOps books! The DevOps for Data Science is a new book by Alex K Gold. As the name implies, the book focuses on topics related to DevOps for data scientists. This includes the following:
✅ Command line
✅ Working with Linux systems
✅ Docker
✅ Scaling resources
✅ Network, domains, DNS, SSL, etc.
✅ Authentication
In the development version of {collapse} [v2.0.15, available via install.packages("collapse", repos = "https://fastverse.r-universe.dev")], the pivot() function has received a FUN argument to support aggregation, including a number or hard-coded internal functions that do this "on the fly". Initial benchmarks show that this significantly outperforms other pivot table options in R. More at https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/reference/pivot.html (feel free to test and give feedback). #rcollapse#rstats#DataScience
I was looking for examples of interactive data visualization for a gradient descent algorithm, and I found this app by Lili Jiang. This desktop app is based on C++ and enables simulation and visualization of different gradient descent algorithms, such as momentum, AdaGrad, RMSProp, and Adam. The app enables to compare different methods simultaneously.
James Baker on Bluesky: 'From 2025/26 University of Southampton DH will be running a new MSc in Digital Humanities (Data Science). Huge thanks to all my colleagues who've helped turn our little idea into a reality, especially the amazing
Lexi Webster https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/digital-humanities-data-science-masters-msc
And look out for a Humanities Data Science Lectureship we'll be advertising in the Autumn to lead this programme (ask me if you are interested in knowing more before the ad comes out).'
(1/2) Shiny Apps for demystifying statistical models and methods 🚀
This is a cool website that explains different statistical concepts with the use of interactive Shiny Apps. Ben Prytherch made this website from the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University.
(2/2) It covers the following topics:
✅ Factorial ANOVA
✅ Mixed effect ANOVA
✅ Mixed effect with random slopes
✅ Logistic regression
✅ ANCOVA
✅ One-way ANOVA
✅ Odds ratio vs relative risk
✅ Correlation coefficient vs slope
✅ Sampling
Some of the folks who signed up for my #StickersAndStamps project finally got an email from me, thanking them for letting me know when their letters arrived.
Most of them arrived on, or near, the the day I had my surgery.
My recovery is still going well, and I finally had the mental and physical energy for the correspondence.
I'll be returning to working on the data visualization and art of the project soon!
The End To End Data Science With R is a new book by Rene Essomba. The book, as the name implies, focuses on the core data science applications using R ❤️. This book covers the following topics:
✅ Exploratory data analysis
✅ Data visualization
✅ Supervised learning
✅ Unsupervised learning
✅ Time series
✅ Natural language processing
✅ Image classification
I'm looking for consulting work in data science/data analysis. I'm based in Christchurch, New Zealand, but I'm happy to work remote.
I have a background in media & communication, so I'm happy working with clients of any technical ability ^_^ I've worked on projects ranging from surveys of social workers to network analysis, so I'm happy to try anything!
Data Wrangler is a new Microsoft VScode extension for data exploratory analysis. It supports Python 🐍 and Pandas 🐼 DataFrame objects and is integrated into VScode Jupyter Notebooks. Here are some of the functionalities of Data Wrangler:
✅ Data review
✅ Column filtering
✅ Summary statistics
✅ Data cleaning and transformation
✅ Hadeling missing values
✅ Creating new fields
(1/2) Google released a new foundation model for time series forecasting 🚀
The TimeFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a foundation model for time series forecasting applications. This pre-trained model was developed by the Google Research team. It joins the recent trend of leveraging foundation models for time series forecasting, which includes Salesforce's Moirai and Amazon's Chronos.
