Editors Pick | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/editors-pick/ 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 Editors Pick | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/editors-pick/ 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> How to Perform Effective Data Cleaning for Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-perform-effective-data-cleaning-for-machine-learning/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:11:04 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606536 Learn how you can improve your machine learning models using effective data cleaning

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]]> What I Learned in my First 18 Months as a Freelance Data Scientist https://towardsdatascience.com/what-i-learned-in-my-first-18-months-as-a-freelance-data-scientist-the-taxes-and-health-insurance-edition/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:05:17 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606529 The taxes and health insurance edition

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]]> Your Personal Analytics Toolbox https://towardsdatascience.com/your-personal-analytics-toolbox/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:30:31 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606514 Leveraging MCP for automating your daily routine

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]]> POSET Representations in Python Can Have a Huge Impact on Business https://towardsdatascience.com/poset-representations-in-python-have-huge-impact-on-business/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:19:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606512 Discover how POSET indicators transform data into coherent scoring systems, enabling meaningful comparisons while preserving the data’s multi-dimensional semantic structure.

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]]> Rethinking Data Science Interviews in the Age of AI https://towardsdatascience.com/rethinking-data-science-interviews-in-the-age-of-ai/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:02:47 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606499 How AI is transforming data science interviews—and what hiring managers and candidates should do to adapt

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]]> Fairness Pruning: Precision Surgery to Reduce Bias in LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/fairness-pruning-precision-surgery-to-reduce-bias-in-llms/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:29:08 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606492 From unjustified shootings to neutral stories: how to fix toxic narratives with selective pruning

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]]> Software Engineering in the LLM Era https://towardsdatascience.com/software-engineering-in-the-llm-era/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:27:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606485 On growing new software engineers, even when it’s inefficient

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]]> How to Access NASA’s Climate Data — And How It’s Powering the Fight Against Climate Change Pt. 1 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-access-nasas-climate-data-and-how-its-powering-the-fight-against-climate-change-pt-1/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:20:26 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606475 From architectural design to food security.

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]]> An Introduction to Remote Model Context Protocol Servers https://towardsdatascience.com/an-introduction-to-remote-model-context-protocol-servers/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:59:44 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606471 Writing, testing and using them.

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]]> Prescriptive Modeling Makes Causal Bets – Whether You Know it or Not! https://towardsdatascience.com/prescriptive-modeling-makes-causal-bets-whether-you-know-it-or-not/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:26:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606465 An explanation of the causal assumption implicit in prescriptive modeling and how to satisfy it.

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]]> From Pixels to Plots https://towardsdatascience.com/from-pixels-to-plots/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:53:16 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606458 How I built an AI-powered prototype to turn images into insights

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]]> A Developer’s Guide to Building Scalable AI: Workflows vs Agents https://towardsdatascience.com/a-developers-guide-to-building-scalable-ai-workflows-vs-agents/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:38:23 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606443 A practical guide to choosing between AI agents and workflows for production systems, covering the hidden costs, architectural trade-offs, and decision framework that can save you thousands in deployment mistakes. Includes real-world examples and a scoring system to determine which approach fits your specific use case.

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]]> AI Agent with Multi-Session Memory https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-agent-with-multi-session-memory/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:12:47 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606426 Build from scratch using only Python & Ollama (no GPU, no APIKEY)

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]]> Stop Chasing “Efficiency AI.” The Real Value Is in “Opportunity AI.” https://towardsdatascience.com/stop-chasing-efficiency-ai-the-real-value-is-in-opportunity-ai/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:10:40 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606411 Companies pursuing incremental productivity gains risk being displaced by AI-native competitors building entirely new business models

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]]> Why Your Next LLM Might Not Have A Tokenizer https://towardsdatascience.com/why-your-next-llm-might-not-have-a-tokenizer/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:17:49 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606399 The Tokenizer Has Been a Necessary Evil, but This Radical Approach Shows That It Might Not Be Necessary Anymore.

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