Data Science

Math tends to elicit strong emotions among professionals with data-centric careers. Some people want to become data scientists because they love math. Others need to overcome deep-rooted anxiety around this subject before they find their footing in the profession; even then, they might aim to use their math knowledge as…

How the API is changing and how to leverage new functionalities — Introduction After 3 years of development, the second pandas 2.0 release candidate was released on the 16th of March. There are many new features in pandas 2.0, including improved extension array support, pyarrow support for DataFrames and non-nanosecond datetime resolution, but also many enforced deprecations and hence API changes. …

Introducing a new training strategy for learning user preferences to multi-attribute offers based on a multi-task approach — Code is available on https://github.com/tinyclues/group-by-augmentations-model Motivation In tinyclues SaaS business context, we want to model a user propensity to buy a given offer in the presence of its multiple offer attributes. …

In the English language, more than 38% of words are polysemous, a term referring to a single word which may have multiple definitions, or “senses” (Edmonds, 2006). The word “set” for instance — which can be used as a noun, verb, and adjective — has dozens of unique definitions, making…

Imagine you asked 10 of your friends how much they believe the heaviest whale ever recorded weighs. Now you take the average of these 10 guesses. How many of your friends guesses do you think will be better than this average? One might naively assume that about half of them…