August 30, 2020

Dear friends,

Welcome to the August 30th issue of the Sunday Briefing.

This week we are proud to introduce a new and cleaner look to the newsletter. We hope you’ll enjoy it!

We continue our short hiatus from blogging, but you can checkout the latest post in the Causality series where we cover Chains and Forks or the latest in the Epidemic Modeling series where we go over the basics of Network Structure, Superspreaders and Contact Tracing.

In our regularly scheduled content, we dive into the fundamentals of Python and software development with a look at Python Hash Tables, Effective testing for machine learning systems and Common Python Packaging Mistakes. We also take a look at plot.ly and how you can use it to Level Up Your Data Story.

On the academic front, we take a deeper look into LIME and explore Ethical behavior in humans and machines, consider the Thermodynamic costs of Turing machines and introduce A Survey and Dataset for Image Colorization.

Finaly, in the video of the week, Corey Shaffer takes us on a tour of the re standard library module for Regular Expressions.

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Semper discentes,

The D4S Team