D4S Sunday Briefing #203

Issue #203

May 29, 2023


Book of the Week
This week’s Data Science Book is " Fluent Python " by L. Ramalho, which is, in my opinion, the best book on Python programming available as it teaches readers to truly understand how Python works and how to utilize it effectively. This is a book for those who want a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the language, covering advanced topics such as metaprogramming with "dunder()" methods without getting lost in the weeds. It covers exactly what you need to know, without overwhelming you with unnecessary information. "Fluent Python" is a must-have for any serious Python programmer as even after almost twenty years of working with Python, I continue to learn new things with each chapter. The second edition weighs in at over 1,000 pages for an in depth, comprehensive cover, of everything you may ever need to know about Python.
Fluent Python

Fluent Python


Links of the Week
  1. 1. Tracing Python [blog.koehntopp.info]
  2. 2. A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis [cs.otago.ac.nz]
  3. 3. Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts [economist.com]
  4. 4. Finetuning LLMs Efficiently with Adapters [magazine.sebastianraschka.com]
  5. 5. How to Access the Fantasy Premier League API, Build a Dataframe, and Analyze Using Jupyter, Python, and Pandas [towardsdatascience.com]
  6. 6. More Than Just Algorithms [queue.acm.org]
  7. 7. Deep Neural Networks As Computational Graphs [medium.com/tebs-lab]

Papers of the Week
Video of the Week

Network Science: From Abstract to Physical Networks

Network Science: From Abstract to Physical Networks

All our videos are also available in our YouTube playlist.


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