divio.com
What nobody tells you about documentation
14+ min · · However hard you work on documentation, it won't work for your software - unless you do it the right way.
· Shared by 91, including Marco Unternaehrer, Bruno T., Manuel Reinhard, Nils Hitze, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Beni Buess, Thomas Kaul, mdy, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Mara Averick, Benoist Lawniczak, Esther Schindler
oskarth.com
What is a shell and how does it work?
8 min · · This post is part of my ongoing experiment in grokking xv6. In it I will teach you what a shell is and how it works. If you haven’t read first part in this series, you can read it here. In my…
KDnuggets
Compilation of Advice for New and Aspiring Data Scientists
5 min · · comments By Conor Dewey, Virginia Tech Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve noticed more and more posts on Medium and elsewhere in the data science community centered… · Shared by 7
reddit.com
r/MachineLearning - [Discussion] When ML and Data Science are the death of a good company: A cautionary tale.
8 min · · 476 votes and 129 comments so far on Reddit · Shared by 10, including Alexander Seifert
Quartz
I’m a data scientist who is skeptical about data
8 min · · We’ve conflated data with truth. And this has dangerous implications for our ability to understand, explain, and improve the things we care about. · Shared by 125, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ronald van Loon, Oscar MacDonald, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Bill Johnston, ❤️ Umair, George Waititu, John Hagel, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa
KDnuggets
This New Google Technique Help Us Understand How Neural Networks are Thinking
5 min · · By Jesus Rodriguez, Intotheblock. comments Interpretability remains one of the biggest challenges of modern deep learning applications. The recent advancements in computation models and deep learning… · Shared by 7
Nathan Yau
Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian on Statistics and Data
1 min · · I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the…
medium.com
Advice for New Data Scientists
9 min · · In this post I outline some advice for junior data scientists as they onboard onto data and product teams at Airbnb. · Shared by 12, including Data Science Renee
The New York Times
R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts
3 min · · A programming language’s versatility and its price (free) makes it a favorite of data analysts. · Shared by 6, including Balaji
Harvard Business Review
Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
7 min · · Beware the data science pin factory. · Shared by 167, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Jacob Jarnvall, Beto Esquivel, Bryan Onel, Charles-Abner DADI, Isabel Steinhoff, Pete Skomoroch, Vikram Dutt, Tom Connor, Marco Unternaehrer, Chintan Shah, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Clemens M. Schuster, Antonio Vieira Santos, William El Kaim, Data Science Renee, Arin Basu, Thomas Power
veekaybee.github.io
Data science is different now.
16+ min · · We owe it to juniors to tell them the truth about the field today. · Shared by 23, including Mara Averick, dunschtig, Martina Pugliese
google.github.io
Google’s R Style Guide
2 min · · Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects · Shared by 9, including Mara Averick, David Smith
koaning.io
The Future of Data Science is Past
8 min · · And it's not just because that's whats *actually* being predicted.