NLP in industry survey: We want to find out how people are using NLP, what tools they are using, and what challenges they face. Please take 5 minutes to fill out our survey and pass it along to your friends and colleagues. A February/2020 survey from Stack Overflow clustered together tools into groups that tendContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Correlated Technologies”
Tag Archives: Python
Why AI and machine learning researchers are beginning to embrace PyTorch
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Soumith Chintala on building a worthy successor to Torch and deep learning within Facebook. Subscribe to the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes,Continue reading “Why AI and machine learning researchers are beginning to embrace PyTorch”
IPython: A unified environment for interactive data analysis
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly data blog and Forbes.] As I noted in a recent post on reproducing data projects, notebooks have become popular tools for maintaining, sharing, and replicating long data science workflows. Much of that is due to the popularity of IPython1. In development since 2001, IPython grew outContinue reading “IPython: A unified environment for interactive data analysis”
Data analysis tools target non-experts
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] A new set of tools make it easier to do a variety of data analysis tasks. Some require no programming, while other tools make it easier to combine code, visuals, and text in the same workflow. They enable users who aren’t statisticians or dataContinue reading “Data analysis tools target non-experts”
Python data tools just keep getting better
[A version of this post appeared on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] Here are a few observations inspired by conversations I had during the just concluded PyData conference1. The Python data community is well-organized: Besides conferences (PyData, SciPy, EuroSciPy), there is a new non-profit (NumFOCUS) dedicated to supporting scientific computing and data analytics projects. The listContinue reading “Python data tools just keep getting better”