Data Science Articles

Conlan Carter

Updated on March 31, 2025

Data scientists are in demand in Boston, and these companies are looking to hire.

Adrienne Teeley

Updated on March 27, 2025

How the company’s CTO is fulfilling his career-long dream of making data ‘stunningly easy’ to work with

Giorgos Myrianthous

Updated on March 25, 2025

Python’s shutil module offers four different ways to copy a file — shutil.copy(), shutil.copyfile(), shutil.copy2() and shutil.copyfileobj(). Here’s how to use each method and which one to pick to copy a file in Python.

Nicky Watson

Updated on March 25, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to troves of personal data carries significant data privacy risks and could have far-reaching consequences. Learn more. 

Paul Barba

Updated on March 25, 2025

Data often reflects the biases that pervade the larger world. To make machine learning processes more equitable, we need to employ a variety of methods to eliminate bias.

Jeff Catlin

Updated on March 25, 2025

Domain-specific AI isn’t here quite yet, but deep language learning models like BERT and GPT-3 suggest it’s just a matter of time before your niche sees its own transformative AI innovations.

Mrinal Tyagi

Updated on March 24, 2025

Image segmentation separates an image into groups of pixels based on variables like proximity to one another, color and brightness for faster processing. Here’s a deep dive into different image segmentation techniques and how each works.

Afroz Chakure

Updated on March 20, 2025

A classification tree is a type of decision tree used to predict categorical or qualitative outcomes from a set of data observations.

Przemek Chojecki

Updated on March 20, 2025

Acquiring data is easy nowadays. To make it useful, though, you need to develop a coherent plan for data usage.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on March 20, 2025

Cloud competition has humbled the onetime watershed. Cloudera’s new distribution aims to restore former glory.