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Data Science in 2020: Technology

This article analyses 30,000 unique Data Science blog posts from the last year to get to the bottom of what the Data Science community has been discussing. This post looks at the most discussed -- and most popular -- technologies of the year.

Engineering Skills for Data Scientists

A Brief Introduction to HDF5

Data models and data formats are an easily overlooked but critical aspect of modern data infrastructure and development work. This post gives an introduction to HDF5 and how to get started using it in Go.

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.

Computer Science

What is Reservoir Computing?

What if there was a framework that could be used to exploit the properties of matter for computation? Originally posted on The Conversation.

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.

Artificial Intelligence

The Side Effects of Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles are starting to pop up all over the place, even in Milton Keynes. But what does this mean for the rest of us? Originally posted on The Conversation.

Technology

Graphene: The Key to Next-Gen Batteries?

Graphene has had a fair bit of buzz in the last decade. One major possible use case is to improve significantly battery tech. This article looks at how. Originally posted on The Conversation.

Technology

British Airways and Our Reliance on Technology

Software has eaten the world. For some of us that may be a good thing. For others, less so. Take British Airways, for example. Originally posted on The Conversation.

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