Healthy Data
This summer, we started asking about “technical health.” We don’t see a lot of people asking what it means to use technology in healthy ways, at least not in so…
SQL: The Universal Solvent for REST APIs
Data scientists working in Python or R typically acquire data by way of REST APIs. Both environments provide libraries that help you make HTTP calls to REST endpoints, then transform…
Recommendations for all of us
If you live in a household with a communal device like an Amazon Echo or Google Home Hub, you probably use it to play music. If you live with other…
What Is Causal Inference?
The Unreasonable Importance of Causal Reasoning We are immersed in cause and effect. Whether we are shooting pool or getting vaccinated, we are always thinking about causality. If I shoot the…
2021 Data/AI Salary Survey
In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. The results gave us insight into what our subscribers are paid, where…
Rebranding Data
There’s a flavor of puzzle in which you try to determine the next number or shape in a sequence. We’re living that now, but for naming the data field. “Predictive…
Hand Labeling Considered Harmful
We are traveling through the era of Software 2.0, in which the key components of modern software are increasingly determined by the parameters of machine learning models, rather than hard-coded…
5 things on our data and AI radar for 2021
Here are some of the most significant themes we see as we look toward 2021. Some of these are emerging topics and others are developments on existing concepts, but all…