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Engineering Career Paths. Peeking at Etsy. Uncertainty Estimates. CLI Apps. [DSR #157] #157 Oct 14, 2018
SEO Experimentation @ Airbnb. AI Safety @ DeepMind. Hexagons(!?) Building Your Own GPU Rig. [DSR #156] #156 Oct 7, 2018
Forecasting at Uber. Reproducible ML. Optimizers on AI. Column-Store Databases. GDPR. [DSR #155] #155 Sep 30, 2018
#154 Sep 23, 2018 Deep Learning Popularity. Privacy @ Spotify. A/B Testing Research from Facebook. Learning DS on a Budget. [DSR #154] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#153 Sep 16, 2018 11 Reasons Notebooks Suck. Tuning Redshift Performance. Code as Configuration. [DSR #153] – Do you have 3+ years of experience working in a modern data team? Fishtown Analytics is hiring experi
#152 Sep 9, 2018 Scaling Knowledge. 5 Tips for Better DS Writing. Infrastructure @ Stitch Fix. New Data on DS Jobs. [DSR #152] – Special thanks to Domino Data Lab for sponsoring this week's Roundup. I've actually jumped on the "Sp
#151 Sep 2, 2018 Marketing Analytics @ Instagram. PhD: Yes or No? Knowledge Dissemination @ Uber. [DSR #151] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#150 Aug 26, 2018 Machine Learning Cheatsheet! Change Data Capture @ Airbnb. Devops. Two Fascinating Visualizations. [DSR #150] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#149 Aug 19, 2018 Notebooks at Netflix. A/B Testing @ Etsy. Publishing Your Work. [DSR #149] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#148 Aug 12, 2018 Dataviz Cheatsheet. Blind Spots. Feature Engineering. The Smile Curve. Building Your Brain Trust. [DSR #148] – Lazy rainy Saturday at home ->> particularly good issue 😊 I got really sucked in this week; the
#147 Aug 5, 2018 Learning Dexterity. Data Ethics. Black Box Models. Land Usage. [DSR #147] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#146 Jul 29, 2018 Getting Hired. Data Scientists at Airbnb. ML in Bigquery. Tufte-Worthy Charts in R. [DSR #146] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#145 Jul 22, 2018 The 2018 Data Landscape. Building Services. Red Flags in Interviews. AutoML. [DSR #145] – Wow—apparently I decided to take a break on a busy week! There's a lot of great stuff in this issue,
#144 Jul 15, 2018 DSR #144: Summer Break! – Happy Sunday! This week marks the two-year anniversary of Fishtown Analytics, and we marked the occas
#143 Jul 8, 2018 The State of AI. Data Engineering @ Airbnb. Agile Analytics. SQL Window Functions. [DSR #143] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#142 Jul 1, 2018 Top 10 Papers from CVPR. Uber Eats. Data Warehouse Comparisons. [DSR #142] – Hi! I have a quick favor to ask. I'm working with a very high-growth company to hire for multiple pos
#141 Jun 24, 2018 Optimization @ Stitch Fix. Bias-Variance Tradeoff. Facebook's DensePose. [DSR #141] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#140 Jun 17, 2018 Embedded ML. Trustworthy Analysis. ML @ Twitter. Snowflake & BigQuery. [DSR #140] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#139 Jun 10, 2018 AI Principles at Google. Academic Data Sharing. 8 Python Concepts You May Have Forgotten. [DSR #139] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#138 Jun 3, 2018 Internet Trends. Data Warehouse SLAs. Training Data. [DSR #138] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#137 May 27, 2018 Agile Analytics. GDPR. Netflix Interview Questions. 10 Reasons Enterprises Suck at Data. [DSR #137] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#136 May 20, 2018 20 Questions. AI and Compute. Reporting is a Gateway Drug. [DSR #136] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#135 May 13, 2018 Google Duplex. Data Privacy in Analytics. Team Names @ Lyft. Scientific Debt [DSR #135] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#134 May 6, 2018 50 Useful ML APIs. Airflow x 2. Command line tips. Sergey's Thoughts on AI. [DSR #134] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#133 Apr 29, 2018 ML's Jet Age. 100 Billion Events / Day. Qualitative Research. Evaluating your Models. [DSR #133] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#132 Apr 22, 2018 Managing a Data Science Team. Python in Shiny. The Fall of RNN and LSTM. [DSR #132] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#131 Apr 15, 2018 Experimentation at DoorDash. Data Tooling. Kubernetes. Deep learning on Spark? [DSR #131] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#130 Apr 8, 2018 Junior Analyst >> Senior Analyst. Optimizing hyper-parameters. Programming ML. GPUs in Databases. [DSR #130] – A bit shorter than usual! Honestly the past week was a bit quiet, so I kept this issue focused on jus
#129 Apr 1, 2018 Getting Hired. More Books! Data Governance. Big-O Complexity. [DSR #129] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#128 Mar 25, 2018 Five Books. Gender Shades. Deploying Cloud Infrastructure. Top AI Grad Programs. [DSR #128] – My co-founders Drew and Connor will be attending DataEngConf San Francisco next month! As a part of t
#127 Mar 18, 2018 Evolving ML Models. Scaling Kubernetes. Markov Chains. Similar Item Search at Airbnb. [DSR #127] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#126 Mar 11, 2018 Cloud Notebooks. Uber's Queryparser. Interpretability Research. [DSR #126] – dbt turned 2 years old on Friday! My cofounder, Drew, wrote an awesome blog post on the journey so fa
#125 Mar 4, 2018 Data Engineering. JupyterLab. Two Great Stitch Fix Posts. Neural Networks + Ethereum? [DSR #125] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#124 Feb 25, 2018 Pipeline Debt. Dashboard Design and Font Choices. Cloud GPU Benchmarks. [DSR #124] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#123 Feb 18, 2018 Deep Learning in a Spreadsheet. Jobs! Data viz. The Spark Optimizer. [DSR #123] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#122 Feb 11, 2018 Pizza. Clustering algorithms. An Overview of Cloud ML Options. Regularization. [DSR #122] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#121 Feb 4, 2018 Mastering New Skills. AI Fund. Matrix Calculus. Platform Releases Win Oscars. [DSR #122] – Apologies if anyone got "Page Not Found" errors from clicking links in last week's issue! It's been s
#120 Jan 21, 2018 Common-Sense Baselines. Hawaii. Data Engineering. Getting Hired. Predicting Churn. [DSR #120] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#119 Jan 14, 2018 Building an Analytics Team. Wildfires. Spiking Neural Networks (?!?) [DSR #119] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#118 Jan 7, 2018 ML @ Facebook. AI Year in Review. Structuring the data team @ Coursera. Feature Engineering. [DSR #118] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#117 Dec 31, 2017 The Top 10 Data Science Links of 2017. [DSR #117] – It's been a hell of a year in data. As promised, here are your top links of 2017, ranked by number of
#116 Dec 17, 2017 What's Next in Analytics Tech. ML @ Spotify. Developing Talent. [DSR #116] – Welcome to the last new issue of 2017! I'll be taking a break next week and then returning the follow
#115 Dec 10, 2017 Modular Analytics. Top 10 AI Trends of 2018. Data Science @ Warby Parker. Deep Learning IRL. [DSR #115] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#114 Dec 3, 2017 Your 2018 Conference List. SageMaker. Docker. Dashboard Design @ Instagram. [DSR #114] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#113 Nov 26, 2017 Communication in Data Science. NumPy. Accountability in AI. Happy Thanksgiving! [DSR #113] – Happy Thanksgiving to all of the US-based Data Science Roundup readers! I hope you've had as relaxing
#112 Nov 19, 2017 Software 2.0. Five Essential ML Algorithms. Data Science @ Booking.com. TensorFlow Lite. [DSR #112] – I'm doing a webinar with the folks at Mode Analytics called Future-Proof your Analytics Stack. Should
#111 Nov 12, 2017 10 Statistical Techniques You Need to Know. Full Stack Data Science. Migration. [DSR #111] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#110 Nov 5, 2017 The State of Data Science Survey. Stream Processing. New Research from OpenAI. [DSR #110] – Several articles this week that touch on stream processing in some way. There's increasing attention
#109 Oct 29, 2017 A/B Testing @ Stack Overflow. Interviewing Data Scientists. Testing ML. [DSR #109] – Light week this week—there was a surprisingly short list of stuff I found worth bringing to your atte
#108 Oct 22, 2017 Getting hired. Data warehouse benchmarks & upgrades. dbt. Learning math. [DSR #108] – Fishtown Analytics is hiring! If you know anyone starting out their career in data, point them our wa
#107 Oct 15, 2017 Data in Tech: Insights from Spotify, Airbnb, Instacart, Zulily, Soundcloud, and Lyft [DSR #107] – There were tons of excellent posts about data from innovative tech companies this week. Each article
#106 Oct 8, 2017 12 Ways to F*** up your A/B Test. Open Data. Visualizing Time and Space. [DSR #105] – A week ago I was unfamiliar with the term isochrone—maybe you were too? My gift to you in this week's
#105 Oct 1, 2017 Apache Arrow: the Future of Data Science? Data Science in Academia. Web Scraping. [DSR #105] – The Lego map at the end of this article really has me thinking about 3D printing. Has anyone 3D print
#104 Sep 24, 2017 Kafka @ the NYT. Data Quality and Outlier Detection. Security in the era of Equifax. [DSR #104] – Some foundational stuff this week. I'd love to talk to anyone who is thinking about log-based archite
#103 Sep 17, 2017 Are you a Real Data Scientist? The next ten Starbucks in NYC. Communicating Uncertainty. [DSR #103] – Thanks to the folks at Looker for a great JOIN 2017! Lots of great conversations with lots of super-s
#102 Sep 10, 2017 Broken Neural Networks, Real-Time SQL, & the State of the Data Science Industry [DSR #102] – Typically I try to keep to 6-10 links, but this week I just kept coming across more stuff that I foun
#101 Sep 3, 2017 Python Overtakes R, Natural Disasters in Data, Inside Google Brain, & The Rise of Data Comics [DSR #101] – My guess is that a bunch of you are going to be at Looker's JOIN event in San Francisco next week. I'
#100 Aug 27, 2017 Becoming an ML Engineer, Screwing up SQL, & a Great Intro to SVM [DSR #100] – Issue # 100 sees the Data Science Roundup community at over 7,000 strong. Thanks for inviting us into
#99 Aug 20, 2017 New Deep Learning Architectures, GPU Databases, Histograms, & more! 👀 [DSR #99] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#98 Aug 13, 2017 How to Become a Data Scientist. Plus, DOTA, Subways, Python as Poetry & more! [DSR #98] – So much good stuff this week! Enjoy! 😊 - Tristan❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three fr
#97 Aug 6, 2017 The AI Hierarchy of Needs, Modern Programming, and Bat Detectors [DSR #97] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#96 Jul 30, 2017 SparkR, Query Optimization, xkcd, and ML in Financial Markets [DSR #96] – ❤️ Want to support us? Forward this email to three friends!🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign up to
#95 Jul 23, 2017 An ML Pipeline from Airbnb, Scalable Data Eng from Thumbtack, & Smart SQL [DSR #95] – This week we start off with two awesome case studies on how Airbnb and Thumbtack have built big parts
#94 Jul 16, 2017 3 Ways to Screw Yourself With ML, Data PMs, & More! [Data Science Roundup #94] – Several links this week to Towards Data Science—they're doing great work, check them out.Enjoy!- Tris
#93 Jul 9, 2017 Data Science Roundup #93: Women in Data, Viz @ Instacart, Modular SQL @ Stitch Fix, and more! – Lots of great stuff happened in the past two weeks! Hope you're ready to settle in and do some readin
#92 Jul 2, 2017 Data Science Roundup #92: Taking a Break! – This week marks the 1-year anniversary of Fishtown Analytics, and I decided to take a weekend off to
#91 Jun 25, 2017 Data Science Roundup #91: Paradoxes, empathy, and lower entry-level salaries(!?) – This is an atypical issue, where I (mostly) take a break from focusing on implementation questions. I
#90 Jun 18, 2017 Data Science Roundup #90: Research from DeepMind, Conversion Rates, and Anomaly Detection! – It was hard to narrow things down this week! This issue contains a mix of new research, practical app
#89 Jun 11, 2017 Data Science Roundup #89: Relational Networks, Narrative Fallacy, Wine Pairings & more! – A brand new neural network architecture is proposed and tested by the folks at DeepMind—this is a big
#88 Jun 4, 2017 Data Science Roundup #88: Airbnb's Data University, Sample Bias, AlphaGo & SparkR – Solid week this week. I'd be especially interested in your thoughts on the first article about spread
#87 May 28, 2017 Data Science Roundup #87: Improving your Productivity, AutoML, and the Growth of Python – Smarter workflows = more productive data scientists! Or, simply automate the process of model-buildin
#86 May 21, 2017 Data Science Roundup #86: AI in Medicine, Opportunity Sizing @ Etsy & Deep Learning Advice. – Unambiguously positive results in medicine and education. A great talk from Etsy, practical advice fo
#85 May 14, 2017 Data Science Roundup #85: Experimentation @ Airbnb, Timelines @ Twitter, Data from Instacart – Really interesting stuff out this week from Twitter, Airbnb, Facebook, Instacart. Also: we just launc
#84 May 7, 2017 Data Science Roundup #84: How to Build your Data Team, 2 ML Products & an Intro to Spatial Algos – This week includes lots of advice on building your data team, a topic that I've become obsessed with.
#83 Apr 30, 2017 Data Science Roundup #83: OCR @ Dropbox, The Nature of Knowledge, Data Validation & more! – We just got back from DataEngConf in San Francisco last week. Congrats to our friends at Hakka Labs f
#82 Apr 23, 2017 Data Science Roundup #82: "Statsplaining", NBA Fouls, and Effective Data Engineering Teams! – Our friends at Casper are looking for two data analysts! The Casper data team does great work; I coul
#81 Apr 16, 2017 Data Science Roundup #81: Curating the Linkedin Feed, Trends in Machine Learning, and some Data Eng 😌 😌 – Some weeks are quiet, some weeks are awesome.If you're actively working in an analytics role, please
#80 Apr 9, 2017 Data Science Roundup #80: Momentum, the Sentiment Neuron, and ML for Product Managers! – Interesting new research this week from OpenAI, Google, and UC Davis. Plus plenty of other good stuff
#79 Apr 2, 2017 Data Science Roundup #79: Complete Guide to Startup Analytics, Why People are Leaving Data Viz, & more! – Thanks for reading! It's an honor to be in your inbox, as always.- TristanReferred by a friend? Sign
#78 Mar 26, 2017 Data Science Roundup #78: Big Week! Analyzing /r/The_Donald, Writing Good Code, & much more! – So much good stuff out this week! Don't miss the 538 article, it's one of my favorite pieces of data
#77 Mar 19, 2017 Data Science Roundup #77: Artificial Agents Create Their Own Language, Annotated Audio Data, & more! – Happy Sunday! Thanks, as always, for reading. If you enjoy reading the Data Science Roundup, I'd appr
#76 Mar 12, 2017 Data Science Roundup #76: Google buys Kaggle, AutoML, and 3 Great Posts on Hiring! – Are you looking for a job (or hiring for one)? Make sure not to miss the three great posts below on h
#75 Mar 5, 2017 Data Science Roundup #75: Diagnosing Cancer with Deep Learning, Open Source ETL with Singer, and more! – Has anyone deployed Facebook Prophet yet? We're going to start using it and would love to hear any fe
#74 Feb 26, 2017 Data Science Roundup #74: Forecasting at Scale @ Facebook, the SHA1 Attack, and more! – Last week was the single best week ever for the Roundup: 5k opens and 1,600 clicks. I'm going to stic
#73 Feb 19, 2017 Data Science Roundup #73: TensorFlow, Real-Time Alerting, and a Firehose of New Posts – This was a big week! So much good stuff I couldn't narrow it down to 6. Enjoy :) - TristanPS: Referre
#72 Feb 12, 2017 Data Science Roundup #72: Data Viz, Intro to LDA, and Pizzagate! – 140+ blogs and publications and 500+ posts distilled down to the best six. Do you ❤️️ the Data Scienc
#71 Feb 5, 2017 Data Science Roundup #71: The Best Job in America, Rules for Strong AI, and some Really Boring Stuff – 140+ blogs and publications and 500+ posts distilled down to the best six. Do you like reading the Da
#70 Jan 29, 2017 Data Science Roundup #70: The Rise of the Data Engineer, GPUs, and Some Amazing Data Viz – Every week I scan the top news from 140+ blogs and publications and distill 500+ posts down to the be
#69 Jan 22, 2017 Data Science Roundup #69: Machine Learning @ Google, Focus on Recommenders & more! – Do you ❤️️ the Data Science Roundup? Please share with your network! on Twitter | on Facebook | forwa
#68 Jan 15, 2017 Data Science Roundup #68: Advice from Your Peers! Plus, AI Takes over Poker. – Share via Twitter | Share on Facebook | forward this emailReferred by a friend? Sign up.
#67 Jan 8, 2017 Data Science Roundup #67: Focus on Deep Learning! Plus: The 10 Best Data Viz Projects of 2016 – Focus on deep learning: an update on AlphaGo, a fun side project, and a review of deep learning in 20
#66 Jan 1, 2017 Data Science Roundup #66: The 6 Top Data Science Articles from 2016 – Happy New Year! This issue is a Roundup of Roundups; I went back through the 2016 archives and dug up
#65 Dec 18, 2016 Data Science Roundup #65: Slack's Data Infrastructure, the (Human) History of AI, & more! – Data infrastructure @ Slack and Blue Apron. Andrew Ng gives a master class on building deep learning
#64 Dec 11, 2016 Data Science Roundup #64: 2016 Deep Learning Advances, Major OpenAI Release & more! – Interesting week! Major advancements in deep learning in 2016; OpenAI makes a major new release; catc
#63 Dec 4, 2016 Data Science Roundup #63: 5 Brand New AWS Data Products, plus Intel's AI Efforts & more! – This week features a deep dive into recent announcements made by Amazon: don't miss these new product
#62 Nov 27, 2016 Data Science Roundup #62: Reproducible Research @ Stripe, plus easy mapping viz, image recognition & more! – The coming age of image recognition. How to avoid getting overwhelmed as you learn. Reproducible rese
#61 Nov 20, 2016 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 workflo
#60 Nov 13, 2016 The State of ML, Facebook's Algorithmic Editor, an Introduction to Ensembles, and more! – What data geeks got wrong, and right, in the 2016 US elections. A focus on ensemble learners: what th
#59 Nov 6, 2016 NumPy, Pandas Walkthroughs, Plus a Googler's Practical Guide to Analytics 📊 📈 – This week's issue focuses on Python, with detailed walkthroughs of Pandas and NumPy. Also included: t
#58 Oct 30, 2016 Teach yourself Machine Learning! Plus: breakthroughs in speech recognition and molecular simulation – Teach yourself machine learning! Plus: superforecasting @ Twitch and breakthroughs in speech recognit
#57 Oct 23, 2016 Data Science Roundup #57: The SQL Issue! – There was a ton of great writing on the SQL analytics ecosystem this week! If SQL isn't a huge part o
#56 Oct 16, 2016 Data Science Roundup #56: Doing Away with Significance, Machine Learning for the Masses, and more! – Saying goodbye to p-values; machine learning will be commoditized (what will that look like?); a sing
#55 Oct 9, 2016 Data Science Roundup #55: Stealing ML Models, AI in Health Care, and Talking to the Dead(?) – Probability is not subjective; now is the time for AI in medicine; reverse-engineering black box ML m
#54 Oct 2, 2016 Data Science Roundup #54: DIY Hedge Fund! Plus, estimating delivery times, learning loops, and more! – Two awesome walkthroughs, a data science leader's thoughts on productionizing data science within his
#53 Sep 25, 2016 Data Science Roundup #53: Analytics Tech, How to Interpret a Poll, and All the Algorithms! – The ideal analytics tech stack, building election models and the inherent subjectivity of polls, the
#52 Sep 18, 2016 Data Science Roundup #52: Spotlight on Neural Networks! Plus, 21 Interview Answers You Need to Know. – 🍻 One year of the Data Science Roundup! 🍾
#51 Sep 11, 2016 Data Science Roundup #51: Not Enough Data Engineers, DeepDress, and A/B Testing at Lyft – This week I'm incredibly proud to share a just-released report I helped author called The State of Da
#50 Sep 4, 2016 Data Science Roundup #50: A Superintelligent Hedge Fund, 100 Billion Lessons Learned, and the Rise of the Digital Fingerprint
#49 Aug 28, 2016 Data Science Roundup #49: Text Summarization, Open Data, and Fantasy Maps! – Quick note: I'll be attending Strata NYC from September 26-29 and would love to meet any readers who
#48 Aug 21, 2016 Data Science Roundup #48: Databases, Scalability, and Shipping Routes – This week is a deep dive into databases, programming, and scalability. Plus, a useful color palette t
#47 Aug 14, 2016 Data Science Roundup #47 - Text analysis, tabular design, and a massive Airflow Tutorial! – Hi! Welcome to the redesigned Data Science Roundup! I would love to hear your feedback on the new for
