A walkthrough from Minsky’s Society of Mind to today’s renaissance of multi-agent AI systems. — ⁍ Preface In 1986, Marvin Minsky, a pioneering computer scientist who greatly influenced the dawn of AI research, wrote a book that was to remain an obscure account of his theory of intelligence for decades to come. The Society of Mind consisted of 270 essays divided into 30 chapters. The book was…

How to use OSRM to calculate distances reliably and for free. Calculating distances between a set of coordinates is something that regularly comes up in Data Science projects. …

🥞 Full Stack Data Scientist: Part 7— How to set up a Slack Bot for instant, automatic notifications — Dashboards are the most popular way of presenting data in businesses — but they’re not the only way! There are times when users need to be immediately notified when something happens. For example… 💧 A maintenance team should be notified immediately if a pipe has burst 🏷 An analyst should…

Infectious research ideas, game-changing applications and four awkward moments… — Sipping a warm cup of tea and zoning out to candy-coated thoughts? Hiding your 2021 resolution list under a glass of champagne? Trying to make a summary of what happened in the world of AI out of a long and vague chain of events? You’re not alone! To write this…

How I learned to stop worrying and love the field — This blog covers all the core themes to starting your career in data science: 🧭 Exploration vs Exploitation 🤓 Getting a theoretical edge 💼 Building your professional portfolio 🔥 Learning how to tell stories with data ❤️ Getting the pulse of the community The demand for data scientists has been…

The definitive guide to ranking the best chess traps using stats — In this blog post, we will use cold hard stats (and Python) to calculate the best chess traps! 🚀 🪤 What’s a chess trap? Let’s start with a definition: A trap is a position where a player is likely to play a move that when followed by the optimal response, results in a position where…

Case-studies from real-life business scenarios and advice you can act on. — This post is a bitesize walk-through of the 2021 Executive Guide to Data Science and AI — a white paper packed with up-to-date advice for any CIO or CDO looking to deliver real value through data. Download the free, unabridged version here. We have divided the guide into 8 thematic…

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” From the very first sentence of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy gives us a universal truth about success. You can fail in many ways, but there’s only one way in which you can succeed. …

This is part of the Full Stack Data Scientist blog series. I’ve written an introductory blog here, and I’d also recommend reading the Practical Introduction to Docker before working with this post’s tutorial. Building end-to-end data science solutions means developing data collection, feature engineering, model building and model serving processes…