themes from a call corpus to the customer table. Customers without transcripts get NULL. NULL gets filled with zero, or with “no issue mentioned,” or quietly omitted as a reference category. In one line of preprocessing, the pipeline converts did not call support into did not experience billing frustration. The regression that follows looks clean. …
Contents# Introduction# Step-by-Step Procedure# Wrapping Up # Introduction Production data is typically subject to notable privacy and compliance constraints. For this reason, anonymizing such data becomes critical in virtually every real-world data science project involving the launch of a data-driven product, service, or solution. Mimesis is an open-source Python library that stands out for its ability to generate …
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ContentsStreet View: ground your worlds in real placesProject Genie: now available with Google AI Ultra Street View: ground your worlds in real places When creating imaginative worlds in Project Genie, you can now also base them on real places. Just tap the Maps pin to choose a place in the U.S. and optionally select a …
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teach you how to make a model accurate. They rarely teach you the decisions that come right after. How do you know when to fully automate something versus keeping a human in the loop? When does prompting stop being enough and fine-tuning become worth the cost? What does it actually mean to pick real-time inference …
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Contents# Introduction# 1. List Comprehensions and Generator Expressions# 2. Decorators# 3. Context Managers (with Statements)# 4. Mastering *args and **kwargs# 5. Dunder Methods (Magic Methods)# Wrapping Up # Introduction Why do you use Python? For a lot of people it comes down to “just because,” but it really shouldn’t. Python is a powerful, general-purpose programming language with a simple syntax highlighted by …
. A part of me started this journey because data engineering is one of the hottest and highest-paying careers right now. I’m not going to pretend that wasn’t a factor. But there’s more to it than that. I’ve been learning data analytics for a while now. SQL, Power BI, Python (Pandas, NumPy, a little Polars), …
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Contents# Introduction# TurboQuant in a Nutshell# Evaluating TurboQuant# Wrapping Up # Introduction TurboQuant is a novel algorithmic suite and library recently launched by Google. Its goal is to apply advanced quantization and compression to large language models (LLMs) and vector search engines — indispensable elements of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems — to improve their efficiency drastically. TurboQuant has been …
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I’ve seen a lot when I’m working with enterprise AI teams: they nearly always blame the model when something goes wrong. This is understandable, but it’s also frequently incorrect, and it ends up being quite costly. The usual scenario is as follows. The outputs are inconsistent; when someone raises it, the first reaction is to …
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Contents# Introduction# What Exactly Is an AI Agent?# Will Data Science Be Replaced by AI in the Future?# What Is the Trend in Data Science in 2026? Shifting to Agentic Workflows# What Will AI Be Like in 2026? Becoming a Collaborative Partner# Conclusion # Introduction The world of data science moves fast. If you are just starting your journey in 2026, …
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I in my previous article, “From Code to Insights: Software Engineering Best Practices for Data Analysts”, that engineering skills and best practices can be incredibly useful for analysts and other data professionals. This is even more true now in the AI era, when we have far more opportunities to build our own analytical tools: from …
