Issue #138

July 4, 2021

This weeks Data Science Book is " Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling From Spreadsheets to Code " by J. Dougherty, I. Ilyankou. Data visualization, and in particular, storytelling with Data is an often overlooked skill that can help you stand out among your peers. Being able to explain your results, highlight the key points and messages can help you maximize your professional impact. This book is one of the best introductions to Data Visualization and storytelling using a wide range of tools and techniques that are presented through hands-on, step by step, tutorials. The book focuses on generating interactive visualizations that can be embedded within your customer facing website or internal dashboard using a wide range of practical tools.

Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling From Spreadsheets to Code

1. The State of Web Scraping 2022 [scrapeops.io]
2. Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are [blog.mollywhite.net]
3. The programmer's brain in the lands of exploration and production [vickiboykis.com]
4. T-Shaped People and Academia [bastian.rieck.me]
5. Auto-Diagnosis and Remediation in Netflix Data Platform [netflixtechblog.com]
6. Neuroscience Inspired AI [jrodthoughts.medium.com]
7. How To Create And Sell NFTs [medium.com/swlh/]
8. Carbon dating, the archaeological workhorse, is getting a major reboot [nature.com]
9. Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal [github.com/Textualize]

• COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths (P. Jha, Y. Deshmukh, C. Tumbe, W. Suraweer, A. Bhowmick, S. Sharma, P. Novosad, S. H. Fu, L. Newcombe, H. Gelband, P. Brown)
• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (D. Ongaro, J. Ousterhout)
• On proof theory in computational complexity: overview (L. Gordeev, E.H. Haeusler)
• Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (S. M. Kazemi)
• Predictability states in human mobility (D. Pacheco, M. Oliveira, Z. Chen, H. Barbosa, B. Foucault-Welles, G. Ghoshal, R. Menezes)
• Botometer 101: Social bot practicum for computational social scientists (K.-C. Yang, E. Ferrara, F. Menczer)
• What complexity science is, and why (P. Holme)
• The effect of co-location of human communication networks (D. Carmody, M. Mazzarello, P. Santi, T. Harris, S. Lehmann, T. Abbiasov, R. Dunbar, C. Ratti)

Causality in Python

July 4, 2021

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