Google's Dataset Search: Direct access to 25 million interesting datasets

I used to keep a repository of links to interesting datasets to learn data science. However, that page I can retire, as Google has launched its new service Dataset Search. The “world wide web” hosts millions of datasets, on nearly any topic you can think of. Google’s Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these…

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Visualize graph, diagrams, and proces flows with graphviz.it

Graphviz.it is a free online tool to create publication-ready diagrams in an interactive fashion. It uses It uses graphviz-d3-renderer Bower module and adds editor and live preview of code. Try it on Graphviz fiddling website. Here are some examples: The github page hosts more details and you can even follow the development on twitter.

Best practices for writing good, clean JavaScript code

Robert Martin’s book Clean Code has been on my to-read list for months now. Browsing the web, I stumbled across this repository of where Ryan McDermott applied the book’s principles to JavaScript. Basically, he made a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software code in JavaScript. Although Ryan’s good and bad code examples are written in…

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Bayes theorem, and making probability intuitive – by 3Blue1Brown

This video I’ve been meaning to watch for a while now. It another great visual explanation of a statistics topic by the 3Blue1Brown Youtube channel (which I’ve covered before, multiple times). This time, it’s all about Bayes theorem, and I just love how Grant Sanderson explains the concept so visually. He argues that rather then…

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Animated Machine Learning Classifiers

Ryan Holbrook made awesome animated GIFs in R of several classifiers learning a decision rule boundary between two classes. Basically, what you see is a machine learning model in action, learning how to distinguish data of two classes, say cats and dogs, using some X and Y variables. These visuals can be great to understand…

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Leonardo: Adaptive Color Palettes using Contrast-Ratio

Leonardo is an open source tool for creating adaptive color palettes; a custom color generator for creating colors based on target contrast ratio. Leonardo is delivered as a Javascript module (@adobe/leonardo-contrast-colors) with a web interface to aid in creating your color palette configurations, which can easily be shared with both designers and engineers. Simply put, Leonardo…

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CodeWars: Learn programming through test-driven development

As I wrote about Project Euler and CodingGame before, someone recommended me CodeWars. CodeWars offers free online learning exercises to develop your programming skills through fun daily challenges. In line with Project Euler, you are tasked with solving increasingly complex programming challenges. At CodeWars, these little problems you need to solve with code are called…

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Free course: SQL for Data Science

Kirsten Kehrer from datamovesme.com does all kinds of super valuable stuff in SQL and end of 2019 she decided to share it with the world via a free SQL course. The course is focused on data science and has 5 modules with video lectures: Intro Video Module 1 Video  Module 2 Video 1 and Module 2 Video…

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Top-19 articles of 2019

With only one day remaining in 2019, let’s review the year. 2019 was my third year of blogging and it went by even quicker than the previous two! Personally, it has been a busy year for me: I started a new job, increased my speaking and teaching activities, bought and moved to my new house,…

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