D4S Sunday Briefing #131

Issue #131

July 4, 2021


Book of the Week
This weeks Data Science Book is " Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide " by V. Lakshmanan and J. Tigani. Google BigQuery is google's SQL based data warehousing and analysis solution that you can easily use in your own projects. Written by one of the early designers of BQ, this books provides a clear and in depth view of how to make the most out of this powerful system that is able to process terabytes of data in just a few seconds. The authors introduce each concept in a intuitive and didactic way, using simple examples that leverage public datasets you can easily run on your own. Overall an excellent first introduction and regular reference to one of the best data analysis systems available today.
Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide

Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide


Links of the Week
  1. 1. Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective [covid-datascience.com]
  2. 2. The network scientist’s survival kit [petterhol.me]
  3. 3. The Data Visualisation Catalogue [datavizcatalogue.com]
  4. 4. Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code [quantamagazine.org]
  5. 5. The Riemann conjecture unveiled by physics [phys.org]
  6. 6. The Joy of Cryptography [joyofcryptography.com]
  7. 7. Minimax algorithm and alpha-beta pruning [mathspp.com]
  8. 8. Static Duck Typing in Python with Protocols [daan.fyi]
  9. 9. Graph Neural Networks through the lens of Differential Geometry and Algebraic Topology [towardsdatascience.com]
  10. 10. The Poisson Hidden Markov Model for Time Series Regression [towardsdatascience.com]

Papers of the Week
Video of the Week

Data Analysis with Python for Excel Users

Data Analysis with Python for Excel Users

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