Daily Habits of Top 1% Freelancers in Data Science
KDnuggets
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Stop guessing and start applying the 5 daily habits that turn average freelancers into 6-figure earners.
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A Data Scientist’s Guide to Data Streaming
MAY 14, 2025
This guide introduces data streaming from a data science perspective. Well explain what it is, why it matters, and how to use tools like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and PyFlink to build real-time pipelines.
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When Good Data Is Scarce, Planning Beats Reinforcement Learning in AI Decision-Making
NYU Center for Data Science
MAY 7, 2025
Artificial intelligence often relies heavily on high-quality, abundant data to learn effectively. But a recent study led by CDS PhD Student Vlad Sobal and Wancong (Kevin) Zhang , a computer science PhD student at NYUs Courant Institute, shows that when good data is scarce or poor-quality, planning aheadrather than blindly following learned policiescan significantly outperform traditional reinforcement learningmethods.
Is Gemini’s New Data Science Agent Useful? Here’s The Truth
Towards AI
MAY 1, 2025
Author(s): John Loewen, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. Testing Python code creation and distribution in Google Colab In Google Colab, Gemini makes it possible to go from a plain-text instruction to a functional, multi-step notebook without switching tools. In other words, you can now prompt a Jupyter notebook to write itself. This includes the full workflow of reading a dataset, cleaning it, filtering by year, and generating an interactive data visualization using Plotly (for example,
Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing
Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management
In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.
Half of Data Scientists Report Using AI for Assisting with Coding
ODSC - Open Data Science
MAY 15, 2025
If you arent living under a rock, you have seen firsthand or secondhand how AI is rapidly transforming the way we learn, solve problems, and write code. For data professionals, the shift isnt theoreticalits practical, immediate, and measurable. In a recent ODSC community survey , we asked a simple question: What tasks do you rely on AI to assistwith?
Unlocking Next-Gen Customer Experiences with Data Intelligence for Marketing
databricks
MAY 14, 2025
Today were announcing the launch of Data Intelligence for Marketing, combining the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with out-of-the-box integrations to an ecosystem of leading marketing
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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines
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Organizations run AI competitions for a variety of reasons. They want to engage the expertise of a global community. They want to push the limits of available methods for their needs. They want to explore innovative approaches and surface new ideas. They want to benchmark the level of performance that can be achieved with their data. At the end of a competition, these organizations get a few things: Winning solutions, consisting of research code in a Github repository and often shared openly for
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Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder
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MAY 14, 2025
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works wellit passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it is based on, which is written in C.
College Professors Are Turning to ChatGPT to Generate Course Materials. One Student Noticed — and Asked for a Refund.
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insideBIGDATA
MAY 23, 2025
NVIDIA said it has achieved a record large language model (LLM) inference speed, announcing that an NVIDIA DGX B200 node with eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs achieved more than 1,000tokens per second (TPS) per user on the 400-billion-parameter Llama 4 Maverick model.
CLIP-UP: A Simple and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts CLIP Training Recipe with Sparse Upcycling
Machine Learning Research at Apple
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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are crucial for scaling model capacity while controlling inference costs. While integrating MoE into multimodal models like CLIP improves performance, training these models is notoriously challenging and expensive. We propose CLIP-Upcycling (CLIP-UP), an efficient alternative training strategy that converts a pre-trained dense CLIP model into a sparse MoE architecture.
Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Enabling SSL for Database in IBM SPSS CaDS on Liberty Server — Post-Installation Guide
IBM Data Science in Practice
MAY 19, 2025
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Matrix3D: Large Photogrammetry Model All-in-One
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Cleaning data used to be a time-consuming and repetitive process, which took up much of the data scientist’s time. But now with AI, the data cleaning process has become quicker, wiser, and more efficient. AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc, can be used to automate anything from correcting format issues to handling missing […] The post How to Clean Data Using AI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes
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