“Soft skills are the foundation for every relationship we make and build.” — In the Author Spotlight series, TDS Editors chat with members of our community about their career path in data science, their writing, and their sources of inspiration. Today, we’re thrilled to share our conversation with Rose Day. Rose is a Senior Developer on a data platform, and frequently writes about…

Zoom all the way in on any data science project, and you see rigid-looking, carefully executed elements: queries, code snippets, formulae, and charts. These painstaking details often belie the creative energy that goes into assembling the ingredients for solving complex challenges. This week, we’re celebrating some of the most creative…

“Sometimes, I just take a walk to understand the environment I am in and try to uncover patterns.” — In the Author Spotlight series, TDS Editors chat with members of our community about their career path in data science, their writing, and their sources of inspiration. Today, we’re thrilled to share our conversation with Bryan R. Vallejo. Bryan got a Bachelor’s in Geography and Spatial Planning from the Catholic…

Graph machine learning and graph neural networks (GNNs) have been generating enormous interest in both academia and industry. (The first conference dedicated to graph machine learning is taking place later this year.) You find graphs pop up in other corners of the broader data science and machine learning world, though…

How to build tools that inspire good decisions — Dashboards address—and ideally, prevent—the waste of good data. They’ve become a crucial medium for data scientists who want to share the product of their hard work, and for other stakeholders who need to make data-informed business and product decisions. Many obstacles remain, though, on the road to successful collaboration: how…

It’s entirely possible that in the not-too-distant future, you could thrive as a data analyst or ML practitioner with rudimentary (or no) programming skills. For now, though, solid coding chops are still a valuable asset for anyone who works with data, whether in industry or in academia—and Python remains the…

How Hannah Roos uses her data science, business, and psychology background to help people solve problems with data — In the Author Spotlight series, TDS Editors chat with members of our community about their career path in data science, their writing, and their sources of inspiration. Today, we’re thrilled to share our conversation with Hannah Roos. Hannah Roos is a psychologist with a passion for data science. Inspired by…

In a field as fast-changing as data science, you’re bound to reach a point in your learning curve that feels very steep—perhaps even insurmountable. (Chances are it will happen more than once.) In those moments, the strength of your foundations really matters—and the hard work of mastering the basics finally…

Dr. Varshita Sher: “My first advice for a complete beginner would be to just start anywhere” — In the Author Spotlight series, TDS Editors chat with members of our community about their career path in data science, their writing, and their sources of inspiration. Today, we’re thrilled to share our conversation with Dr. Varshita Sher. Dr. Sher is currently working as a data scientist at the Alan…