Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:10:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/ 32 32 What Can the History of Data Tell Us About the Future of AI? https://towardsdatascience.com/a-brief-recent-history-of-data/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:10:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606585 A 40-Year Look at Data, Business Models, and the Forces Shaping Intelligent Systems

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]]> Accuracy Is Dead: Calibration, Discrimination, and Other Metrics You Actually Need https://towardsdatascience.com/accuracy-is-dead-calibration-discrimination-and-other-metrics-you-actually-need/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:41:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606583 A deep dive into advanced evaluation for data scientists

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]]> Topic Model Labelling with LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/topic-model-labelling-with-llms/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:44:18 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606581 Python tutorial for reproducible labeling of cutting-edge topic models with GPT4-o-mini.

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]]> There and Back Again: An AI Career Journey https://towardsdatascience.com/there-and-back-again-an-ai-career-journey/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:31:01 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606579 A full circle moment 30 years in the making

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]]> Dynamic Inventory Optimization with Censored Demand https://towardsdatascience.com/dynamic-inventory-optimization-with-censored-demand-2/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:11:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606577 A sequential decision framework with Bayesian learning

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]]> Simple Guide to Multi-Armed Bandits: A Key Concept Before Reinforcement Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/simple-guide-to-multi-armed-bandits-a-key-concept-before-reinforcement-learning/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:18:37 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606572 How AI learns to make better decisions and why you should care about exploration vs. exploitation

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]]> CLIP Model Overview :  Unlocking the Power of Multimodal AI https://towardsdatascience.com/clip-model-overview-unlocking-the-power-of-multimodal-ai/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:01:21 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606570 The magic behind multimodal models unlocked through contrastive learning

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]]> Tracking Drill-Through Actions on Power BI Report Titles https://towardsdatascience.com/tracking-drill-through-actions-on-power-bi-report-titles/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:46:37 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606568 When you have a drill-through page that can be called from multiple pages, it could be interesting to show which page was the originating page in the page title. Here I will show you how to do it.

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]]> Let AI Tune Your Voice Assistant https://towardsdatascience.com/let-ai-tune-your-voice-assistant/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:57:11 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606566 A practical guide to automating prompt engineering for voice assistants

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]]> Are You Being Unfair to LLMs? https://towardsdatascience.com/are-you-being-unfair-to-llms/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:40:50 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606563 They may deserve better.

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]]> Hitchhiker’s Guide to RAG: From Tiny Files to Tolstoy with OpenAI’s API and LangChain https://towardsdatascience.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-rag-from-tiny-files-to-tolstoy-with-openais-api-and-langchain/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:56:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606560 Scaling a simple RAG pipeline from simple notes to full books

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]]> Building a Сustom MCP Chatbot https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-%d1%81ustom-mcp-chatbot/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:53:09 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606552 Understanding all the details of the model context protocol

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]]> Reducing Time to Value for Data Science Projects: Part 3 https://towardsdatascience.com/reducing-time-to-value-for-data-science-projects-part-3/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:21:40 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606550 Setting up a robust experimentation process

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]]> Scene Understanding in Action: Real-World Validation of Multimodal AI Integration https://towardsdatascience.com/scene-understanding-in-action-real-world-validation-of-multimodal-ai-integration/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:12:23 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606548 A deep dive into real-world case studies: from indoor space and urban streets to world-famous landmarks

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]]> Evaluation-Driven Development for LLM-Powered Products: Lessons from Building in Healthcare https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluation-driven-development-for-llm-powered-products-lessons-from-building-in-healthcare/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:58:58 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606546 How metrics and monitoring combine with human expertise to build trustworthy AI in healthcare.

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]]> Worried About AI? Use It to Your Advantage https://towardsdatascience.com/worried-about-ai-use-it-to-your-advantage/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606557 This week, we focus on the future of data science and the opportunities that can arise amid uncertainty.

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]]> The Crucial Role of NUMA Awareness in High-Performance Deep Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/the-crucial-role-of-numa-awareness-in-high-performance-deep-learning/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:18:59 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606544 PyTorch model performance analysis and optimization — Part 10

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]]> Work Data Is the Next Frontier for GenAI https://towardsdatascience.com/work-data-is-the-next-frontier-for-genai/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:04:32 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606542 9 reasons why work data is the single most valuable data source for LLM training, uniquely capable of propelling LLM performance to unprecedented heights.

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]]> Recap of all types of LLM Agents https://towardsdatascience.com/recap-of-all-types-of-llm-agents/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:26:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606540 Regular, ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, Reflexion, ToT, GoT, PoT

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]]> AI Agents Are Shaping the Future of Work Task by Task, Not Job by Job https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-agents-are-shaping-future-of-work-task-by-task-not-job-by-job/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:20:38 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606538 What two groundbreaking studies reveal about the future of human-AI collaboration, and the enterprise playbook for thriving in the AI agent era

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