While Model Trains

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20 ideas for better data visualization

Taras Bakusevych

A list of 20 tips for great data visualization, including "Always start a bar chart at a 0 baseline" and ""Pick a color palette that matches the nature of your data".

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Automated text extraction at Bolt

Francesco Pochetti

A comprehensive explanation of the system implemented at Bolt to extract text from ID documents.

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Data scientists work alone and that's bad

Ethan Rosenthal

"The norm is that of a lonely life for the data scientist. Whether they lie near analytics, machine learning, or elsewhere in the large latent space that spans this ill-defined role, just like in the curse of high-dimensionality, they are likely alone."

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