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Not Everything Needs Automation: 5 Practical AI Agents That Deliver Enterprise Value
https://towardsdatascience.com/not-everything-needs-automation-5-practical-ai-agents-that-deliver-enterprise-value/
Published: June 6, 2025 17:54
What actually works with AI agents inside enterprise organizations?
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Prescriptive Modeling Unpacked: A Complete Guide to Intervention With Bayesian Modeling.
https://towardsdatascience.com/prescriptive-modeling-unpacked-a-complete-guide-to-intervention-with-bayesian-modeling/
Published: June 6, 2025 17:23
Learn how to move beyond prediction and actively make intervention through prescriptive modeling. This in-depth guide walks you through Bayesian approaches to system intervention, with practical examples in predictive maintenance.
The post Prescriptive…
How I Automated My Machine Learning Workflow with Just 10 Lines of Python
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-automated-my-machine-learning-workflow-with-just-10-lines-of-python/
Published: June 6, 2025 13:11
Use LazyPredict and PyCaret to skip the grunt work and jump straight to performance.
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The Role of Luck in Sports: Can We Measure It?
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-role-of-luck-in-sports-can-we-measure-it/
Published: June 6, 2025 12:56
From last-minute goals to coin tosses: How much does randomness influence the outcomes of games?
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Why AI Projects Fail
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-ai-projects-fail/
Published: June 6, 2025 12:49
No one agrees on the exact number, but estimates say anywhere from 50% to 80% of AI projects end in failure.
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5 Crucial Tweaks That Will Make Your Charts Accessible to People with Visual Impairments
https://towardsdatascience.com/5-crucial-tweaks-that-will-make-your-charts-accessible-to-people-with-visual-impairments/
Published: June 6, 2025 12:39
More than 350 million people are colorblind - Make sure they can read your visualizations.
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The Journey from Jupyter to Programmer: A Quick-Start Guide
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-journey-from-jupyter-to-programmer-a-quick-start-guide/
Published: June 4, 2025 23:22
Explore the real benefits of ditching the notebook
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Building a Modern Dashboard with Python and Gradio
https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-modern-dashboard-with-python-and-gradio/
Published: June 4, 2025 22:33
Data insights made simple
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Data Drift Is Not the Actual Problem: Your Monitoring Strategy Is
https://towardsdatascience.com/data-drift-is-not-the-actual-problem-your-monitoring-strategy-is/
Published: June 3, 2025 23:24
Monitoring is easy; what to monitor is not. In the field of machine learning, data drift is
just noise until you know what it means.
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Reducing Time to Value for Data Science Projects: Part 2
https://towardsdatascience.com/reducing-time-to-value-for-data-science-projects-part-2/
Published: June 3, 2025 23:18
Leveraging automation and parallelism to scale out experiments
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Pairwise Cross-Variance Classification
https://towardsdatascience.com/pairwise-cross-variance-classification/
Published: June 3, 2025 19:32
Multi-class zero-shot embedding classification and error checking
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Landing your First Machine Learning Job: Startup vs Big Tech vs Academia
https://towardsdatascience.com/landing-your-first-machine-learning-job-startup-vs-big-tech-vs-academia/
Published: June 3, 2025 19:27
A practical guide to landing your first Machine Learning job across startups, big tech, and academia.
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Decision Trees Natively Handle Categorical Data
https://towardsdatascience.com/decision-trees-natively-handle-categorical-data/
Published: June 3, 2025 18:27
But mean target encoding is their turbocharger
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How to Design My First AI Agent
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-design-my-first-ai-agent/
Published: June 3, 2025 18:19
The foundations of designing an AI agent
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LLMs + Pandas: How I Use Generative AI to Generate Pandas DataFrame Summaries
https://towardsdatascience.com/llms-pandas-how-i-use-generative-ai-to-generate-pandas-dataframe-summaries-2/
Published: June 3, 2025 00:23
Local Large Language Models can convert massive DataFrames to presentable Markdown reports — here's how.
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Evaluating LLMs for Inference, or Lessons from Teaching for Machine Learning
https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluating-llms-for-inference-or-lessons-from-teaching-for-machine-learning/
Published: June 2, 2025 20:04
It’s like grading papers, but your student is an LLM
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Vision Transformer on a Budget
https://towardsdatascience.com/vision-transformer-on-a-budget/
Published: June 2, 2025 19:56
Introduction The vanilla ViT is problematic. If you take a look at the original ViT paper [1], you’ll notice that although this deep learning model proved to work extremely well, it requires hundreds of millions of labeled training images to achieve this. …
Inside Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol: Teaching AI Agents to Talk to Each Other
https://towardsdatascience.com/inside-googles-agent2agent-a2a-protocol-teaching-ai-agents-to-talk-to-each-other/
Published: June 2, 2025 19:27
Exploring how Google's A2A enables plug-and-play communication between LLM-powered agents across frameworks
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Your DNA Is a Machine Learning Model: It’s Already Out There
https://towardsdatascience.com/your-dna-is-a-machine-learning-model-its-already-out-there/
Published: June 2, 2025 19:15
Even if you never sequenced your genome, predictive systems already know a lot about it. Genomic inference has become a population-scale model, and you’re probably in it.
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Grammar as an Injectable: A Trojan Horse to NLP
https://towardsdatascience.com/grammar-as-a-trojan-horse-to-nlp-and-computer-science/
Published: June 2, 2025 16:57
How machines make sense of sentence structure: Combinatory Categorial Grammar
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Hands-On Attention Mechanism for Time Series Classification, with Python
https://towardsdatascience.com/hands-on-attention-mechanism-for-time-series-classification-with-python/
Published: May 30, 2025 20:18
This is how to use the attention mechanism in a time series classification framework
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Agentic RAG Applications: Company Knowledge Slack Agents
https://towardsdatascience.com/agentic-rag-applications-company-knowledge-slack-agents/
Published: May 30, 2025 20:10
Lessons learnt using LlamaIndex and Modal
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The Secret Power of Data Science in Customer Support
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-secret-power-of-data-science-in-customer-support/
Published: May 30, 2025 19:59
Customer support is a data goldmine. Here’s how to unlock its full potential with data science.
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Gaining Strategic Clarity in AI
https://towardsdatascience.com/gaining-strategic-clarity-in-ai/
Published: May 30, 2025 19:50
Introducing the AI strategy playbook
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LLM Optimization: LoRA and QLoRA
https://towardsdatascience.com/llm-optimization-lora-and-qlora/
Published: May 30, 2025 18:44
Scalable fine-tuning techniques for large language models
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Simulating Flood Inundation with Python and Elevation Data: A Beginner’s Guide
https://towardsdatascience.com/simulating-flood-inundation-with-python-and-elevation-data-a-beginners-guide/
Published: May 30, 2025 18:32
Visualize flood impact using elevation data
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How to Build an MCQ App
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-an-mcq-app/
Published: May 30, 2025 18:25
Key steps to using RAG for generating MCQs from Wikipedia articles based on user-defined context
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May Must-Reads: Math for Machine Learning Engineers, LLMs, Agent Protocols, and More
https://towardsdatascience.com/may-must-reads-math-for-machine-learning-engineers-llms-agent-protocols-and-more/
Published: May 30, 2025 14:00
A selection of our most-read and -shared articles of the past month
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GAIA: The LLM Agent Benchmark Everyone’s Talking About
https://towardsdatascience.com/gaia-the-llm-agent-benchmark-everyones-talking-about/
Published: May 29, 2025 22:31
What practitioners need to know about this LLM agent benchmark
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A Bird’s Eye View of Linear Algebra: The Basics
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-birds-eye-view-of-linear-algebra-the-basics/
Published: May 29, 2025 22:27
We think basis-free, we write basis-free, but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.
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A Practical Introduction to Google Analytics
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-practical-introduction-to-google-analytics/
Published: May 29, 2025 22:18
Learn the key concepts and reports of Google Analytics while practising with the platform
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The Hidden Security Risks of LLMs
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-hidden-security-risks-of-llms/
Published: May 29, 2025 18:39
And why self-hosting might be the safer bet
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I Transitioned from Data Science to AI Engineering: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
https://towardsdatascience.com/i-transitioned-from-data-science-to-ai-engineering-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/
Published: May 29, 2025 17:31
A personal guide to the skills, tools, and mindset behind the title
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The Simplest Possible AI Web App
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-simplest-possible-ai-web-app/
Published: May 29, 2025 17:08
The great simplification experiment
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From Data to Stories: Code Agents for KPI Narratives
https://towardsdatascience.com/from-data-to-stories-code-agents-for-kpi-narratives/
Published: May 29, 2025 06:13
HuggingFace's smolagents framework in action
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Multi-Agent Communication with the A2A Python SDK
https://towardsdatascience.com/multi-agent-communication-with-the-a2a-python-sdk/
Published: May 28, 2025 20:03
The Agent Card helps discover agents, but how does communication between agents actually work in practice?
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JAX: Is This Google’s NumPy killer?
https://towardsdatascience.com/jax-is-this-googles-numpy-killer/
Published: May 28, 2025 19:48
Auto differentiation and JIT compilation make a compelling case.
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Detecting Malicious URLs Using LSTM and Google’s BERT Models
https://towardsdatascience.com/detecting-malicious-urls-using-lstm-and-googles-bert-models/
Published: May 28, 2025 18:38
A progressive approach to implementing AI-powered webpage detection applications into production
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Tree of Thought Prompting: Teaching LLMs to Think Slowly
https://towardsdatascience.com/tree-of-thought-prompting-teaching-llm-to-think-slowly/
Published: May 28, 2025 18:34
Playing Minesweeper with Augmented Reasoning
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Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Tuning of Deep Learning Models
https://towardsdatascience.com/bayesian-optimization-for-hyperparameter-tuning-of-deep-learning-models/
Published: May 27, 2025 21:02
Explore how Bayesian Optimization outperforms Grid Search in efficiency and performance over binary classification tasks.
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How Microsoft Power BI Elevated My Data Analysis and Visualization Workflow
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-microsoft-power-bi-elevated-my-data-analysis-and-visualization-workflow/
Published: May 27, 2025 20:01
Explaining useful features every data analyst needs
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Reinforcement Learning Made Simple: Build a Q-Learning Agent in Python
https://towardsdatascience.com/reinforcement-learning-made-simple-build-a-q-learning-agent-in-python/
Published: May 27, 2025 19:01
Inspired by AlphaGo’s Move 37 — learn how agents explore, exploit, and win
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Why Regularization Isn’t Enough: A Better Way to Train Neural Networks with Two Objectives
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-regularization-isnt-enough-a-better-way-to-train-neural-networks-with-two-objectives/
Published: May 27, 2025 18:09
Why splitting your objectives and your model might be the key to better performance and clearer trade-offs in deep learning.
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Code Agents: The Future of Agentic AI
https://towardsdatascience.com/code-agents-the-future-of-agentic-ai/
Published: May 27, 2025 00:11
HuggingFace smolagents framework in action
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How to Reduce Your Power BI Model Size by 90%
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-reduce-your-power-bi-model-size-by-90/
Published: May 26, 2025 23:37
Have you ever wondered what makes Power BI so fast and powerful when it comes to performance? Learn on a real-life example about data model optimization and general rules for reducing data model
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The Best AI Books & Courses for Getting a Job
https://towardsdatascience.com/best-ai-books-courses-to-get-a-job/
Published: May 26, 2025 23:18
A comprehensive guide to the books and courses that helped me learn AI
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How to Generate Synthetic Data: A Comprehensive Guide Using Bayesian Sampling and Univariate Distributions
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-generate-synthetic-data-a-comprehensive-guide-using-bayesian-sampling-and-univariate-distributions/
Published: May 26, 2025 21:30
Data makes the engine run in many organisations. But what if the number of observations is too low or there is only expert knowledge? I will demonstrate how to generate synthetic data with applications in predictive maintenance.
The post How to Generate…
Understanding Matrices | Part 1: Matrix-Vector Multiplication
https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-matrices-part-1-matrix-vector-multiplication/
Published: May 26, 2025 21:25
The physical meaning of multiplying a matrix by a vector, and how it works on several special matrices.
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5 Statistical Concepts You Need to Know Before Your Next Data Science Interview
https://towardsdatascience.com/5-statistical-concepts-you-need-to-know-before-your-next-data-science-interview/
Published: May 26, 2025 18:37
These common, basic statistics and machine learning concepts are crucial for landing a data scientist role
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Demystifying Policy Optimization in RL: An Introduction to PPO and GRPO
https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-policy-optimization-in-rl-an-introduction-to-ppo-and-grpo/
Published: May 26, 2025 18:25
A beginner-friendly guide to PPO and GRPO: simplifying policy optimization in reinforcement learning
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Prototyping Gradient Descent in Machine Learning
https://towardsdatascience.com/prototyping-gradient-descent-in-machine-learning/
Published: May 24, 2025 01:12
Mathematical theorem and credit transaction prediction using Stochastic / Batch GD
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Estimating Product-Level Price Elasticities Using Hierarchical Bayesian
https://towardsdatascience.com/estimating-product-level-price-elasticities-using-hierarchical-bayesian/
Published: May 23, 2025 23:58
Using one model to personalize ML results
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New to LLMs? Start Here
https://towardsdatascience.com/new-to-llms-start-here/
Published: May 23, 2025 19:51
A guide to Agents, LLMs, RAG, Fine-tuning, LangChain with practical examples to start building
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Do More with NumPy Array Type Hints: Annotate & Validate Shape & Dtype
https://towardsdatascience.com/do-more-with-numpy-array-type-hints-annotate-validate-shape-dtype/
Published: May 23, 2025 18:43
Improve static analysis and run-time validation with full generic specification
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How to Evaluate LLMs and Algorithms — The Right Way
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-evaluate-llms-and-algorithms-the-right-way/
Published: May 23, 2025 14:02
Never miss a new edition of The Variable, our weekly newsletter featuring a top-notch selection of editors’ picks, deep dives, community news, and more. Subscribe today! All the hard work it takes to integrate large language models and powerful algorithms…
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis
https://towardsdatascience.com/multiple-linear-regression-analysis/
Published: May 23, 2025 01:37
Implementation of multiple linear regression on real data: Assumption checks, model evaluation, and interpretation of results using Python.
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Google’s AlphaEvolve: Getting Started with Evolutionary Coding Agents
https://towardsdatascience.com/googles-alphaevolve-getting-started-with-evolutionary-coding-agents/
Published: May 22, 2025 20:50
Introduction AlphaEvolve [1] is a promising new coding agent by Google’s DeepMind. Let’s look at what it is and why it is generating hype. Much of the Google paper is on the claim that AlphaEvolve is facilitating novel research through its ability to…
Inheritance: A Software Engineering Concept Data Scientists Must Know To Succeed
https://towardsdatascience.com/inheritance-a-software-engineering-concept-data-scientists-must-know-to-succeed/
Published: May 22, 2025 20:36
Coding concepts that distinguish an amateur from a professional data scientist
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What Statistics Can Tell Us About NBA Coaches
https://towardsdatascience.com/what-statistics-can-tell-us-about-nba-coaches/
Published: May 22, 2025 15:58
Using Python to determine where NBA coaches come from and what makes them successful
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About Calculating Date Ranges in DAX
https://towardsdatascience.com/about-calculating-date-ranges-in-dax/
Published: May 22, 2025 15:53
When performing date calculations, creating date ranges can be helpful. But how can we do this, and which DAX function can help us in which case? Now you can learn more about this topic.
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Top Machine Learning Jobs and How to Prepare For Them
https://towardsdatascience.com/top-machine-learning-jobs-and-how-to-prepare-for-them/
Published: May 22, 2025 04:51
Explaining the different machine learning roles
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