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Conor O’Sullivan reflects on communication, writing, and the growing importance of algorithmic fairness.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 Conor O'Sullivan.Photo courtesy of Conor O’SullivanConor is a data scientist with experience in the banking and telecommunications industry. He has recently decided to pursue a PhD with a focus on…

This year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has ended, and the event offered something for everyone — on both the software and hardware side. Perhaps better still, it has set the table for what's likely to be an incredible fall, which could be the launching point for maybe a record number of new devices. So here's a look back at a busy week in the Apple world! WWDC hardware Apple doesn't always introduce new hardware at WWDC. This year, however, it revealed next-generation versions of the MacBook Air and 13-inch…

In a recent post about the benefits of data marts, Vicky Yu highlighted a surprising stat: just a few years ago, data scientists would spend up to 80 percent of their work hours wrangling and cleaning data. Even if the percentage is lower these days (as some surveys suggest), that still leaves relatively little time for analysis and insight generation. Which makes one wonder: isn’t that supposed to be the core of a data professional’s job?This week, we turn to the crucial (if sometimes under-discussed) area of data…

Tessa Xie reflects on the twists and turns of data science careers, the benefits of consulting, and the value of writing for a wide audience.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 Tessa Xie.Photo courtesy of Tessa XieTessa started her career in finance as a quantitative researcher after graduating from MIT with a degree in financial…

Source: Apple After weeks of rumors, leaks, and hot takes from every Apple-centric publication — including iMore — we finally have only one more sleep until we get to see the WWDC 2022 keynote. Apple events are always exciting, but WWDC always holds a special place in my heart. Apple's fall event(s) often get the most attention because new hardware tends to look good in a headline, and it's something more tangible than software. However, the software is what makes Apple devices, well, Apple devices. That's why WWDC is so…

Johnny Depp got a big win in his highly publicized and antic-filled defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard. At the center of the six-week trial was a 2018 op-ed written by the actress and published in The Washington Post, and since a jury found Heard guilty on three counts of defamation — awarding Depp $15 million in the process — the media site has added a long Editor’s Note to the original opinion piece, giving necessary context to future readers.Over the course of six weeks, a jury was tasked with deciding if Amber…

The ins and outs of a powerful explainable-AI approachPhoto by Héctor J. Rivas on UnsplashThe power and size of machine learning models have grown to new heights in recent years. With greater complexity comes the need for more accountability and transparency—both for the practitioners who build these models and for those who interpret their results.Within the wide field of explainable AI, one approach that has shown great promise (and drawn a lot of attention) is SHAP (from “SHapley Additive exPlanations”); as its…

From chatbots to sentiment analysis, we’re seeing an explosion of real-world use cases for textual data. Some of the buzziest innovations in AI revolve around models trained with ever-increasing quantities of text; on the flip side, we can trace many of the challenges the field is facing to limited, unrepresentative, or flat-out biased language datasets.This week, we share six recent posts that cover data and language through a wide range of topics and approaches—NLP fans will have a blast, but so will programmers, data…

Source: Christine Romero-Chan / iMore Another week has gone by, bringing us one week closer to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2022. As of this writing, Apple's developer conference will be taking place in just a week, where all of the next iterations of software for Apple's devices will be shown off. Let's dive in. This iOS 16 concept is what Apple should do This week, we saw a very cool concept of what iOS 16 could be from Nicholas Ghigo. In this concept video, he showcases customizable buttons on the…

With so much uncertainty in the past couple of years — from lockdowns and layoffs to global instability and inflation — the very notion of a career path can feel quaint. How can we plan our next year, to say nothing of the next decade, with so much in constant flux?Even if your data science journey is still a fuzzy work in progress, we always recommend listening to others when they share their own successes, struggles, and epiphanies. This week, we’re presenting several standout posts where authors reflect on their data…