Tag: Python

June 19, 2024

Although Python had its 30-year anniversary in 2021, the explosion of adoption, growth, and forward-thinking development associated with the language is still relatively new. Many features of Python have remained unchanged since its inception, but with every passing year, and every new […]

February 14, 2024

Python is often described as an easy language—both easy to learn and easy to use. Python makes it easy to develop powerful software for an enormous variety of applications. But it can be as difficult to get started with Python […]

September 20, 2023

Many CIOs are wringing their hands over generative AI. No, the apocalyptic visions of the groundbreaking new technology replacing us – even destroying us – aren’t keeping them up at night. Rather, they’re worried about how best to arm their […]

May 17, 2023

Python’s rich ecosystem of data science tools is a big draw for users. The only downside of such a broad and deep collection is that sometimes the best tools can get overlooked. Here’s a rundown of some of the best […]

April 3, 2023

No, AI isn’t going to take your job. Not yet anyway. As I’ve written, the best uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) complement human creativity rather than supplant it. Ironically, the best large language models, or LLMs, are […]

February 23, 2023

Tabnine, maker of an AI-powered coding assistant for developers, has launched a tool to provide automatic code testing.Introduced February 22 and now in beta, Tabnine’s unit test generation capability uses artificial intelligence to generate unit tests for code automatically, with […]

February 22, 2023

Every programming language has strengths and weaknesses. Python offers many convenient programming conventions but is computationally slow. Rust gives you machine-level speed and strong memory safety but is more complex than Python. The good news is, you can combine the […]

February 17, 2023

All our online actions generate data. Even if we don’t write posts, comment, or upload other content, we leave our traces by being silent observers. This leads to predictable results – according to Statista, the amount of data generated globally […]

December 8, 2022

With data more critical than ever to companies’ success, Python is spreading beyond the realm of data professionals and being adopted by business analysts and other less technical users. But what are the opportunities if you’re relatively new to Python […]

January 18, 2022

The year 2021 was out of the ordinary as global businesses struggled to keep afloat amid the pandemic. This unusual situation accelerated digitization in businesses, which led to a surge in “digital data.” This year witnessed a record number of […]

October 20, 2021

Do you want to be a data analyst? If so, great career choice! Data analysts are in high demand: From technology giants like IBM and Microsoft to our favorite media streaming providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime, organizations are increasingly […]

September 1, 2021

Looking to advance Python performance, data science platform provider Anaconda has hired the lead developers of the Pyston alternative Python runtime. The developers, Kevin Modzelewski and Marius Wachtler, will focus on building an open source community of users, contributors, and […]

March 17, 2021

Data scientists are some of the most in-demand professionals on the market. A LinkedIn Workforce Report in 2018 found 151,000 unfilled data scientist jobs across the United States, with “acute” shortages in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. […]

March 11, 2021

Ideally, a machine learning engineer would have both the skills of a software engineer and the experience of a data scientist and data engineer. However, data scientists and software engineers usually come from very different backgrounds, and data scientists should […]

February 26, 2021

Data scientists, regardless of what package they use, are used to training machine learning models to solve business issues. The classic approaches to creating Data Science, such as the CRISP-DM cycle, support this approach. But the reality is that a […]

January 6, 2021

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general, which comes through in the […]