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DSB #105

Hi,

because last week in Czechia was shorter, the DSB has been postponed until this Friday. So if you are tired open some links and relax. An article I enjoyed the most is the one about MIT testing Covid-19 just with your mobile phone in Pop.

And as always, enjoy your reading.

Analytical

https://deepnote.com/ – Deepnoote was first mentioned in DSB #90 when they raised a lot of money. Now, you can go on their website, and try their real-time collaborative Python or R notebook for free! (rcmd by reader)

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/10/a-definitive-guide-for-predicting-customer-lifetime-value-clv/ – Predicting customer lifetime value in Python.

https://towardsdatascience.com/struggling-with-data-imbalance-semi-supervised-self-supervised-learning-help-4de8b8f23490 – How to handle imbalanced data with semi-supervised and self-supervised learning. Or how to handle this problem more traditionally here.

Computer Science & Science

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-overtakes-java-to-become-the-second-most-popular-programming-language/ – According to TIOBE’s index Java has fallen, and Python is the second most popular programming language. C is the next… (rcmd by reader)

https://testdriven.io/blog/modern-tdd/ – Do you wanna go on production with your code? Then you should do test driven development (TDD). This article tells you how to apply it in Python. (rcmd by reader)

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/11/basic-concepts-object-oriented-programming-types-methods-python/ – Methods we know (or should know) in Python.

Graphs and Visualizations

https://slerka.shinyapps.io/covidparty/ – Spočítejte si, jaká je pravděpodobnost, že ve skupince lidí bude někdo nakažený.

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html – Maybe the best visualization how is coronavirus spreading in different environments.

https://rpsychologist.com/correlation/ – Nice, simple and intuitive way how to explain correlation or other statistical measures and tests.

Business and Career      

https://firstround.com/review/the-40-best-questions-to-ask-in-an-interview-how-to-go-deeper-than-whats-the-culture-like/ – Great questions, not only for job interview but also for management of any company.

https://medium.com/snaptravel/how-should-our-company-structure-our-data-team-e71f6846024d – How Snaptravel have organized their data team in time and what they have learnt?

https://thefinanser.com/2020/11/getting-rid-of-an-ant-why-ant-groups-ipo-was-blocked.html/ – China blocked Ant Group’s IPO. Ant Group is according to wiki the world’s highest-valued fintech, so it’s quite a big thing.

Pop

https://news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detection-1029 – You probably already read this news, Covid-19 can be detected by cough recorded on cellphone thanks to MIT. (rcmd by reader)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-black-hole-information-paradox-comes-to-an-end-20201029/ – Amazing and fascinating reading where the science stands in case of information’s ability to get out of the black hole.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/21/magazine/palantir-alex-karp.html – Story of Palantir Technologies, a company that is often used by others for data analysis, yet not only by companies but also by public institutions or USA army.

Education

https://gist.github.com/ForgottenUmbrella/ce6ecd8983e76f6d8ef47e07240eb4ac – Multiple friendly ways how to publish Python apps. (rcmd by reader)

https://realpython.com/python-scipy-fft/ – Fourier transformation with scippy.fft module by SciPy in Python.

https://towardsdatascience.com/topic-modeling-with-bert-779f7db187e6 – Recognize topic of a document with Bert. Code is here.

Data & Libraries

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases – New Tensorflow 2.4.0 was released, see what’s new. (rcmd by reader)

https://github.com/lk-geimfari/mimesis – Fake data generator for Python. If you need them, just create them. (rcmd by reader)

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/11/04/its-all-just-wiggly-air-building-infrastructure-to-support-audio-research/ – How does Spotify process music? Let’s introduce Klio, their framework, now newly open-sourced.  (rcmd by reader)

Video & Podcast

https://vimeo.com/464835556 – A perfect short video that explains you Gartner Hype Cycle and not only. You will also learn how to interpret multiple 2d graphs ordered in time. Illuminating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dZ_lvDgevk – 2 hours long document how AI is changing everything right here, right now. Have not seen it yet, I assume it will be very popular, so beware.

Papers & Books

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15040v1 – Train GANs with ordinary differential equations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15703v1 – Compress your neural networks.

Behind the Fence

https://www.pythonjobshq.com/jobs/40641580-senior-full-stack-developer-at-panopta – Senior Full Stack Developer at Panopta, Chicago, USA.

Joke

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