Learning Rails with Michael Hartl
“It really seemed like Rails just put everything together, so I thought well let’s give this thing a try, and I liked it.” Michael Hartl is the author of The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a widely acclaimed...
View ArticleDjango with Frank Wiles
“Don’t be so rigid in your methodologies and beliefs and whatever ecosystem you’re in. Everybody’s gotta be a little bit flexible because that rigidity doesn’t work. The only thing that we do as...
View ArticleDeep Learning and Keras with François Chollet
“I definitely think we can try to abstract away the first principles of intelligence and then try to go from these principles to an intelligent machine that might look nothing like the brain.” Keras...
View ArticleMatplotlib with Ben Root
“My eyes just roll whenever I see a table just full of numbers – they don’t mean anything to me, I don’t immediately grok it. But if I see a line plot, I get it, right away.” Matplotlib is a python...
View ArticlePython Scientific Libraries vs. MATLAB
From Chris Riederer’s answer via Quora: I first learned to program using MATLAB. Now, as a computer science Ph.D. student, I try to use Python for everything. (For the rest of this post, I’m going to...
View ArticleIs Scala a better choice than Python for Apache Spark?
From Marcin Mejran’s answer via Quora: If you mean the API then it depends. First of all, performance won’t most likely matter since it’s almost all Scala under the hood for Spark and you can always...
View ArticleLearning Rails with Michael Hartl
“It really seemed like Rails just put everything together, so I thought well let’s give this thing a try, and I liked it.” Michael Hartl is the author of The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a widely acclaimed...
View ArticleDjango with Frank Wiles
“Don’t be so rigid in your methodologies and beliefs and whatever ecosystem you’re in. Everybody’s gotta be a little bit flexible because that rigidity doesn’t work. The only thing that we do as...
View ArticleDeep Learning and Keras with François Chollet
“I definitely think we can try to abstract away the first principles of intelligence and then try to go from these principles to an intelligent machine that might look nothing like the brain.” Keras...
View ArticleMatplotlib with Ben Root
“My eyes just roll whenever I see a table just full of numbers – they don’t mean anything to me, I don’t immediately grok it. But if I see a line plot, I get it, right away.” Matplotlib is a python...
View ArticlePython Scientific Libraries vs. MATLAB
From Chris Riederer’s answer via Quora: I first learned to program using MATLAB. Now, as a computer science Ph.D. student, I try to use Python for everything. (For the rest of this post, I’m going to...
View ArticleIs Scala a better choice than Python for Apache Spark?
From Marcin Mejran’s answer via Quora: If you mean the API then it depends. First of all, performance won’t most likely matter since it’s almost all Scala under the hood for Spark and you can always...
View ArticleScikit-learn with Andreas Mueller
Scikit-learn is a set of machine learning tools in Python that provides easy-to-use interfaces for building predictive models. In a previous episode with Per Harald Borgen about Machine Learning For...
View ArticlePython Data Visualization with Jake VanderPlas
Data visualization tools are required to translate the findings of data scientists into charts, graphs, and pictures. Understanding how to utilize these tools and display data is necessary for a data...
View ArticleScala at Duolingo with Andre Kenji Horie
Duolingo is a language learning platform with over 200 million users. On a daily basis millions of users receive customized language lessons targeted specifically to them. These lessons are generated...
View ArticleScaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo
This post was originally written by Jeremy Hermann & Mike Del Balso on Uber Engineering. Reposted with permission. In September 2017, we published an article introducing Michelangelo, Uber’s...
View ArticleNotebooks at Netflix with Matthew Seal
Netflix has petabytes of data and thousands of workloads running across that data every day. These workloads generate movie recommendations for users, create dashboards for data analysts to study, and...
View ArticleTalking Python with Michael Kennedy
Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the software world. After working with Python and developing a love for the language, Michael Kennedy started to wonder why there was not a...
View ArticleDask: Scalable Python with Matthew Rocklin
Python is the most widely used language for data science, and there are several libraries that are commonly used by Python data scientists including Numpy, Pandas, and scikit-learn. These libraries...
View ArticleModin: Pandas Scalability with Devin Petersohn
Pandas is a Python data analysis library, and an essential tool in data science. Pandas allows users to load large quantities of data into a data structure called a dataframe, over which the user can...
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