The Best Articles in Data Science

Learn everything there is to know about Reverse ETL, how it fits into the modern data stack, and why it's different than ETL.

Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language, designed to give users the speed of C/C++ while remaining as easy to use as Python. This means that developers can solve problems faster and more…

«So now the function is defined to take in only a string. Let us test this out to make sure we can only call the function with a string value»

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for learning the basics of data science and machine learning.

By Nagesh Singh Chauhan, Big data developer at CirrusLabs What is Clustering?? Clustering is a technique that groups similar objects such that the objects in the same group are more similar to each…

AI trained on ever-more data has yielded ChatGPT and DALL-E 3. But research shows online data stocks are growing more slowly than datasets used to train AI.

«Another option is to use AI to create synthetic data to train systems. In other words, developers can simply generate the data they need, curated to suit their particular AI model.»

A new tool has been created to poison image-output models like Midjourney and DALLE-2. Are text-output models like ChatGPT and Copilot next?

«Nightshade might trip up AI models now, he says, but future filtering techniques and generative model architectures will probably be able to swallow the poison with no ill effects. The same would presumably apply to facial recognition and deepfake algorithms, necessitating a new subset of arms race between the hacker and the hacked.»

Emerging AI trends such as natural language processing and reinforcement learning are set to bring in the next frontier of Data Science.

«This year, in particular, is expected to see the rapidly accelerated adoption of RL as businesses realize and harness its untapped potential.»

When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

«This despair helps my students recognize an apparently banal assignment as a real design situation. It teaches them that data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity.»

The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well documented statistics.

How to shape the narrative with graph manipulation without sacrificing your credibility. The art of tweaking graphs to better support your story.

An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.

«But for the most part, official statistics are imperfect but good enough.»

In a seminar for a team from an investment manager I described how base rates are often neglected when people are grappling with conditional probabilities.

What’s the purpose of dashboards in 2023?

How Computers Think: Introduction

Are you ready to hire a data scientist? Mengying Li, Growth Data Science Lead at Notion, shares her framework for testing whether you should invest in this key hire and how to find the right data…

The next big thing, or just massively overhyped?

In December last year Katherine Milkman and friends published a “megastudy” testing 54 interventions to increase the gym visits of 61,000 experimental participants.