Data Science - Mark Douthwaite

How Good is Xanthus?

Xanthus is a Deep Learning (DL) library built on top of Tensorflow and uses the Keras API to implement various neural recommendation model architectures. This post benchmarks the models implemented in Xanthus against some popular 'classic' matrix factorisation models.

Technology

Deploying Streamlit Apps to GCP

Streamlit is a minimal, modern data visualization framework that's rapidly becoming the go-to dataapp framework in the Python ecosystem. This post introduces Streamlit, and shows you how to securely and scalably deploy your Streamlit apps with Google App Engine.

Artificial Intelligence

Introducing Xanthus

This post introduces Xanthus - a new open source Deep Learning package built on TensorFlow 2.0 for quickly and easily building state of the art recommendation models in Python.

Engineering Skills for Data Scientists

Fire: Simple CLIs done right

Creating CLIs can help improve accessibility and reuse of your scripts and packages, but they can also be a bit of a pain to set up and maintain. Fire makes building CLIs for your latest ML pipeline a breeze.

Technology

Tracking Monster Jobs with TQDM

TQDM is a tiny Python package that lets you add customisable progress bars to your code. Ideal for some those nasty multi-hour model training jobs.