🗯 This week

After a short vacation break, the newsletter is back. This time, I'm experimenting with including the top reddit posts on data-related subs. I still want to keep the newsletter small, so it's an experiment :-).

🔮 Data Science

• Interactive dashboards with Holoviz
• Datasets to practice Data Science skills
• How to build an analytics data team
• A minimal Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

🛠 Data Engineering

• ETL best practices

💻 Software Engineering

• Python clean code tips by TestDriven.io

🔝 Most popular Reddit posts this week

r/DataScience

• Remember it always. (2109 upvotes; 57 replies)
• Resume observation from a hiring manager (551 upvotes; 217 replies)
• Some other stat (253 upvotes; 10 replies)
• look at the lizard i came across in front of my house today (210 upvotes; 13 replies)
• I have lost all interest in my job and have to come up with defined "career goals" to go over with my manager. Please help! (203 upvotes; 67 replies)

r/DataEngineering

• Any interest in a (compiled) Advanced SQL content for interviews ? (230 upvotes; 122 replies)
• We Don't Need Data Engineers, Data Scientist Need Better Tools - A Data Engineers Response To A Data Scientist (72 upvotes; 36 replies)
• How much are data engineers getting paid in Toronto? Are these numbers from Glassdoor accurate? (67 upvotes; 99 replies)
• DE contractor at FAANG - Advice for quitting, taking some time off, and then jumping back in. (57 upvotes; 27 replies)
• Data Quality: Timeseries Anomaly Detection at Scale with Thirdeye (53 upvotes; 4 replies)

r/MachineLearning

• [P] Meme search using deep learning (582 upvotes; 29 replies)
• [N] Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men (467 upvotes; 125 replies)
• [R] How machine learning will revolutionise physics simulations in games? (403 upvotes; 55 replies)
• [R] Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying (364 upvotes; 64 replies)
• [D] Here is what I learned from writing 50 summaries of popular AI papers! (331 upvotes; 64 replies)

r/LearnMachineLearning

• It is heartbreaking💔 (369 upvotes; 61 replies)
• This search engine for memes built using Neural Search makes finding memes a breeze. Link in comments (263 upvotes; 11 replies)
• Baby Action Detection Prototype - MediaPipe & LSTM [Github in Comments] (256 upvotes; 6 replies)
• I used a machine learning model that can detect barks and respond with audio messages to calm my dog down. (181 upvotes; 12 replies)
• Structure-Aware Learning for Geometry Processing - Link to a free online lecture by the author in comments (174 upvotes; 1 replies)

r/AskStatistics

• Change over time as outcome variable (9 upvotes; 5 replies)
• understanding what it means when adjusting for covariates reduces strength of an association (8 upvotes; 7 replies)
• Resources for Learning Spatial Statistics (8 upvotes; 4 replies)
• Is the formula for calculating sample size is correct in this article? If yes, what is the formula called? If not , what are some other resources to learn about the right sample size? (6 upvotes; 1 replies)
• How can logarithmic decay be predicted? (7 upvotes; 12 replies)

r/LatestInML

• Manipulate Real Images With Text - StyleCLIP Explained (13 upvotes; 0 replies)
• [News] Video matting, searching databases with text, new AI paradigm shift, blind chess, ViTs vs CNNs (12 upvotes; 1 replies)
• The AI Monthly Top 3 — August 2021 The 3 most interesting (according to me) AI papers of August 2021 with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference. (6 upvotes; 0 replies)

r/MLQuestions

• BERT Model is being beaten by random forest, logistic regression, etc. Any ideas? (10 upvotes; 21 replies)
• What is the current state of the art solution for extracting only speech from audio? (10 upvotes; 0 replies)
• Any universities that do research on AI technologies to help adults with Autism? (7 upvotes; 3 replies)
• Laptop suggestions for a CS student planning to study ML (6 upvotes; 25 replies)
• Uploading ML Models? (5 upvotes; 2 replies)

👋 See you next time

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