systems, understanding user intent is fundamental especially in the customer service domain where I operate. Yet across enterprise teams, intent recognition often happens in silos, each team building bespoke pipelines for different products, from troubleshooting assistants to chatbots and issue triage tools. This redundancy slows innovation and makes scaling a challenge. Spotting a Pattern in …
Image by Ideogram Most of my days as a data scientist look like this: Stakeholder: “Can you tell us how much we made in advertising revenue in the last month and what percentage of that came from search ads?” Me: “Run an SQL query to extract the data and hand it to them.” Stakeholder: …
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This post introduces the emerging field of semantic entity resolution for knowledge graphs, which uses language models to automate the most painful part of building knowledge graphs from text: deduplicating records. Knowledge graphs extracted from text power most autonomous agents, but these contain many duplicates. The work below includes original research, so this post is …
Image by Author | Ideogram # Introduction You know the basics of Python’s standard library. You’ve probably used functions like zip() and groupby() to handle everyday tasks without fuss. But here’s what most developers miss: these same functions can solve surprisingly “uncommon” problems in ways you’ve probably never considered. This article explains some of these …
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Why do we still wrestle with documents in 2025? in any data-driven organisation, and you’ll encounter a host of PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, half-scanned images, handwritten notes, and the occasional surprise CSV lurking in a SharePoint folder. Business and data analysts waste hours converting, splitting, and cajoling those formats into something their Python pipelines will accept. …
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Image by Author | Canva & ChatGPT # Introduction GitHub has become the go-to platform for beginners eager to learn new programming languages, concepts, and skills. With the growing interest in agentic AI, the platform is increasingly showcasing real projects that focus on “agentic workflows,” making it an ideal environment to learn and build. One …
Federated Learning (FL) is we train AI models. Instead of sending all your sensitive data to a central location, FL keeps the data where it is, and only shares model updates. This preserves privacy and enables AI to run closer to where the data is generated. However, with computation and data spread across many devices, …
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Image by Author | Ideogram # Introduction You just pushed your Python app to production, and suddenly everything breaks. The app worked perfectly on your laptop, passed all tests in CI, but now it’s throwing mysterious import errors in production. Sound familiar? Or maybe you’re onboarding a new developer who spends three days just trying …
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, data scientists working in the Python ecosystem would routinely juggle multiple tools to carry out basic project management tasks, from creating virtual environments with venv and installing dependencies with pip or conda, to building and publishing packages with setuptools and twine. Nowadays, much of this can be accomplished quickly using a single tool such …
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Image by Editor | ChatGPT # Introduction There are a lot of data science courses out there. Class Central alone lists over 20,000 of them. That’s crazy! I remember looking for data science courses in 2013 and having a very difficult time coming across any. There was Andrew Ng’s machine learning course, Bill Howe’s Introduction …
