Opportunity The community of data science content creators is bustling right now as the whole world’s eyes are on the rapid advancement of AI. Some try their hand at writing articles for sites like Towards Data Science, others write posts for LinkedIn, and others create newsletters using tools like Substack. Pain Points What’s missing from […]
Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of data science can be a daunting task. Aspiring data scientists often wonder how to break into the industry, while experienced professionals seek strategies to stay competitive. Fortunately, Jared Rand, an experienced data science hiring manager, shares insights to address these concerns. Here’s how you can close your data science skill […]
PySpark, a Python library integrated with Apache Spark, has revolutionized big data analytics with its speed, scalability, and efficiency. It offers a wide array of data transformation, analysis, and machine learning capabilities, making it a go-to tool for handling large datasets and real-time data streaming. However, as a data scientist, it is crucial to balance […]
Google has a long history of creating waves in the tech world with its innovative ideas and algorithms. Its latest venture, the Search Generative Experience (SGE), is no different. On paper, it’s an ambitious move that aims to evolve the way users engage with search results by offering AI-generated mini-articles. However, it also raises questions […]
The vision for Skillenai has always been to build tools that allow users to identify and fill their skill gaps. Now that a robust data science article aggregation service has been completed, Skillenai is ready for the next step on that journey. Here’s what the Skill Gap product will look like when completed. Onboarding Workflow […]
My son is turning 5 years old in 6 weeks and I want to build him the most powerful toy robot the world has ever seen. This robot’s superpower will be…chatGPT. Requirements Plan Hardware Inspiration Software Inspiration First Story My prompt Write a story for a 5 year old about monsters and transforming robots where […]
System for Promoting Healthy Habits
I’m a goal-oriented person. When I started this blog about 2 months ago, I set a simple goal of growing the domain authority of Skillenai. To achieve my goal, I set about writing articles on Skillenai and other sites. I got good feedback on my first few articles and landed some nice guest blog opportunities. […]
Is your organization beginning it’s analytics or AI journey? One of the first steps will be building a data science team to help develop and deploy machine learning models. I was lucky to have the opportunity to be the first data scientist at a tech startup. In this article, I will share how we built […]
How to Improve a DAG
This post is part of a collaboration between Alisa Aylward of Alisa in Techland and Jared Rand of Skillenai. View Jared’s post on Alisa in Techland here. Discover the worst data pipeline ever and how to improve it’s DAG. Learn to remove cycles and handle dependencies efficiently. What is a DAG? DAG stands for directed […]
A singleton is a class designed to only permit a single instance. They have a bad reputation, but do have (limited) valid uses. Singletons present lots of headaches, and may throw errors when used with multiprocessing in Python. This article will explain why, and what you can do to work around it. A Singleton in […]