Data Science Roundup #61: Automating your Workflows! Plus: Uber's new mapping library (+ more!)
Why is machine learning hard? Designing physical spaces with ML. Automating your data science workflows. Uber releases a high-performance mapping library. Running your DS team with Agile. A deep dive into gradient descent.
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Why is machine learning 'hard'?
I love this post so much. Hereâs the spoiler: machine learning is hard because it âis a fundamentally hard debugging problem. Debugging for machine learning happens in two cases: 1) your algorithm doesnât work or 2) your algorithm doesnât work well enough. What is unique about machine learning is that it is âexponentiallyâ harder to figure out what is wrong when things donât work as expected. Compounding this debugging difficulty, there is often a delay in debugging cycles between implementing a fix or upgrade and seeing the result.â
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Designing with Machine Learning
ML is infecting the design of software and networks around the world, but WeWork is going further. The company now has enough real estate and usage data to begin using ML to understand the behavior of humans in their built environment, and will be using this insight as an input into plans for future locations. This post is a quick read, but itâll leave you thinking deep thoughts about what the world will really look like once AI infects everything.
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đ¤ Data Scientists Need More Automation
One of the defining characteristics of a good software engineer is her laziness. Lazy software engineers hate doing things that could be automated and spend significant chunks of their time building tooling to make themselves more efficient. Data scientists often lag on the automation front, and this post is both a call-to-action and a list of suggestions.
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Visualize Data Sets on the Web with Uber Engineeringâs deck.gl Framework
Uber has one of the most important datasets in the world, and their data team just released the tool they use to visualize it. deck.gl contains optimizations allowing the rendering of massive map-based datasets that previously couldnât be handled in-browser. This is a project to watch.
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Managing Shifting Priorities in Exploratory Data Science Projects
Data science project methodology is a fascinating topic, and one that often gets lost in the buzz about libraries and algorithms. This post discusses applying the Agile software development process to exploratory data analysis. In my opinion, this is the way to do data science. Too many teams either over-plan (wasting time in areas that turn out to be useless) or under-plan (little to no direction). Agile allows a group to learn quickly and converge on solutions aggressively.
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An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms
Warning: drink â before reading!
Gradient descent is the grandfather of all optimization algorithms. The fundamental insight is fairly straightforward and falls directly out of calculus (finding the slope at a point on a curve), but there are many different algorithmic implementations and all have their own trade-offs.
This is an important topic, and Iâve never seen a better primer.
Data viz of the week
A lot of artistic license went into this. Click through to appreciate in full!
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