All Hands on Data #43
This week's AHoD has something for everyone, whether you want to explore the data space at a birds-eye view, discover new Python packages, or learn about GPT-4.
5 Things Data Scientists Should Know About Generative AI for Synthetic Data
The author lays out both the pros and cons related to introducing synthetic data into your model development process. Most interestingly, this approach has potential to help mitigate against bias in model outputs. - John Forstmeier
Navigating Your Data Science Career
Data science is a rapidly expanding industry and, if you're new to it, the variety of career paths available might be a bit intimidating. This article provides some simple milestones to help you determine where to focus your efforts. - Katt Baum
Super Fast Web Scraping with Polars in Python
One of the first projects that I had in college when I was trying to learn Python was web scraping. I was taught to web scrape using Pandas. But newcomer Polars looks like it may be able to web scrape a bit better than our old bear companion. Check out how to web scrape using Polars in this article. - Steven Johnson
State of Analytics Engineering 2023
With over 567 respondents, dbt has put together a great overview of what Analytics Engineers care about right now. Biggest takeaways for me were that Managers/Directors think less highly of their team's performance and value than the individual contributors do. Plus, people want their tools to work more seamlessly with each other. - Blake Burch
Future of Education: Application not Regurgitation of Knowledge - Part I
I think one of the most important things we have to come to terms with in the age of AI is how we change our education system moving forward. Bill's first part in his series of the Future of Education brings up some interesting ideas on what that might look like. - Jon Davidson
GPT-4 API Pricing Analysis
Are you like us and switched over to GPT-4 as soon as you got access to it? We were quick to want to try out GPT-4, however we took a step back after the newness wore off and took a look at pricing. Thankfully, Ivan does that for you here, so you can spend your time playing with the new toy versus having to worry about the cost of it. - Steven Johnson