Issue #135

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. Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet [gto76.github.io]
2. Statistical Imaginaries: An Ode to Responsible Data Science [zephoria.substack.com]
3. DeepMind’s New AI With a Memory Outperforms Algorithms 25 Times Its Size [singularityhub.com]
4. On the potential of Transformers in Reinforcement Learning [lorenzopieri.com]
5. The Death of Feature Engineering is Greatly Exaggerated [petewarden.com]
6. System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server [webapp.io]
7. Creating a better dashboard with Python, Dash, and Plotly [towardsdatascience.com]

• Degree-preserving network growth (S. R. Kharel, T. R. Mezei, S. Chung, P. L. Erdős, Z. Toroczkai)
• Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter (F. Huszár, S. I. Ktena, C. O’Brien, L. Belli, A. Schlaikjer, M. Hardt)
• Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens (S. Borgeaud, A. Mensch, J. Hoffmann, T. Cai, E. Rutherford, K. Millican, G. van den Driessche, J.-B. Lespiau, B. Damoc, A. Clark, et al)
• Revealing mechanisms of infectious disease spread through empirical contact networks (P. Sah, M. Otterstatter, S. T. Leu, S. Leviyang, S. Bansal)
• An Extension of InfoMap to Absorbing Random Walks (E. V. Bernal, M. A. Porter, J. H. Tien)
• A new coefficient of correlation (S. Chatterjee)
• The interplay between ranking and communities in networks (L. Iacovissi, C. De Bacco)
• Biases in human mobility data impact epidemic modeling (F. Schlosser, V. Sekara, D. Brockmann, M. Garcia-Herranz)

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