Tag: python
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What is a Developer Advocate, TDI 16 with @arynnpost
“How well can you write about a process, how cohesive is it, and can you write for different audiences?” — A M-P (@arynnpost) on Threads First off, @arynnpost, your profile lists you as a developer advocate. What is a developer advocate and how did you get into that role? Developer Advocate goes by many names.…
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Early Dev Advice with @devben.tech: TDI 11
“if I could offer a piece of advice to my past self regarding development, it would be to embrace a growth mindset. “ —Dev Ben (@devben.tech) on Threads Today we have @devben.tech. Welcome @devben.tech, how did you get started with computer programming? I’m excited to be part of Threads Dev Interview! Curiosity played a big…
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Building Your First Model with Azure Machine Learning
The first course in the Mastering Azure Machine Learning series has launched. It focuses on building your first model with Azure Machine Learning. This is a great place to start if you are brand new to Azure Machine Learning. In particular, you will learn the following. Create an Azure Machine Learning workspace Create a compute…
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Cloud Data Science News – Beta #3
Here are this week’s news and announcements related to Cloud Data Science. Plus, there are some links for Videos and Tutorials. Announcements Google Introduces Explainable AIMany industries require a level of interpretability for their machine learning models. Black box solutions are not always ok. Google is launching Explainable AI which quantifies the impact of the…
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Real Talk with A Data Scientist: The Future of Data Wrangling
At Springboard, we recently sat down with Michael Beaumier, a data scientist at Google, to discuss his transition into the field, what the interview process is like, the future of data wrangling, and the advice he has for aspiring data professionals.
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Typical Data Scientist 2019
Data Science 365 conducts a study to determine some of the characteristics of a “typical data scientist.” This infographic covers the findings.
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Google Colaboratory
Google has recently released a Jupyter Notebook platform called Google Colaboratory. You can run Python code in a browser, share results, and save your code for later. It currently does not support R code.
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Data Science Wars: R vs. Python
The great team over at DataCamp, an online site for learning R , has put together another wonderful infographic. This time, the topic is Data Science Wars (R versus Python). This has been a rather hot topic for quite some time. I even wrote about the debate back in 2013, R vs Python, The Great…
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DataQuest – Free Browser-based Learning for Data Science
DataQuest is a recently launched online data science learning platform for python. The site consists of a gamified series of missions that increase in difficulty as your skills progress. Here are a few other features of the site. Sample Code Live, Interactive Browser-based Coding Environment Step by Step Instructions Instant Feedback Helpful Forums for Q&A…
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Using Python to Collect data from the Twitter API
Have you ever wished you could create your own dataset from the vast data available from Twitter? Well, wish no longer. I used the Sense Platform to Create a Dataset of Users from the Twitter API. Feel free to use this example to create your own datasets. The next great thing about Sense is: You…
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R vs Python, The Great Debate
Recently I have seen blogs/articles claiming Python is the best choice for data science and R is the new language for business. Honestly, both articles are truthful and good. Both Python and R are good. Why do we have to choose? Let’s use both. Here is my opinion. I prefer R to Python when performing…
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SciPy 2013 Videos
The videos from the SciPy 2013 conference are all available online. See all the videos at the Lanyard SciPy 2013 Conference Directory. Here are a few of my other favorite videos: SciPy 2013 Keynote: IPython: the method behind the madness SciPy 2013 Keynote: The New Scientific Publishers Reproducible Documents with PythonTeX; SciPy 2013 Presentation Julia…