Technology | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/technology/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:17:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Technology | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/technology/ 32 32 Geospatial exploratory data analysis with GeoPandas and DuckDB https://towardsdatascience.com/geospatial-exploratory-data-analysis-with-geopandas-and-duckdb/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:17:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607897 In this article, I’ll show you how to use two popular Python libraries to carry out some geospatial analysis of traffic accident data within the UK. I was a relatively early adopter of DuckDB, the fast OLAP database, after it became available, but only recently realised that, through an extension, it offered a large number […]

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]]> Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 10: So, What About the AI Bubble? https://towardsdatascience.com/water-cooler-small-talk-ep-10-so-what-about-the-ai-bubble/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607750 Have we all been tricked into believing in an impossible, extremely expensive future?

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]]> Does AI Need to Be Conscious to Care? https://towardsdatascience.com/does-ai-need-to-be-conscious-to-care/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:34:42 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607548 Towards new forms of artificial moral agency

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]]> Python 3.14 and the End of the GIL https://towardsdatascience.com/python-3-14-and-the-end-of-the-gil/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607412 Exploring the opportunities and challenges of a GIL-free Python

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]]> Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep 8: Should ChatGPT Be Blocked at Work? https://towardsdatascience.com/water-cooler-small-talk-should-chatgpt-be-blocked-at-work/ Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:31:55 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/water-cooler-small-talk-should-chatgpt-be-blocked-at-work/ Water cooler small talk is a special kind of small talk, typically observed in office spaces around a water cooler. There, employees frequently share all kinds of corporate gossip, myths, legends, inaccurate scientific opinions, indiscreet personal anecdotes, or outright lies. Anything goes. So, in my Water Cooler Small Talk posts, I discuss strange and usually […]

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]]> How a Research Lab Made Entirely of LLM Agents Developed Molecules That Can Block a Virus https://towardsdatascience.com/a-research-lab-made-entirely-of-virtual-llm-agents-developed-molecules-that-block-a-virus-as-tested-in-real-life/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:55:16 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606790 Welcome to the 21st century by the hand of large language models and reasoning AI agents

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]]> Introducing Server-Sent Events in Python https://towardsdatascience.com/introducing-server-sent-events-in-python/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:07:22 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606778 A simpler path to coding real-time web applications.

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]]> Mastering NLP with spaCy – Part 2 https://towardsdatascience.com/mastering-nlp-with-spacy-part-2/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:08:11 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606769 POS tagging, dependency parser and named entity recognition.

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]]> How to Benchmark LLMs – ARC AGI 3 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-benchmark-llms-arc-agi-3/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:08:33 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606760 Learn how to LLMs are benchmarked, and try out the newly released ARC AGI 3

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]]> Automating Deep Learning: A Gentle Introduction to AutoKeras and Keras Tuner https://towardsdatascience.com/automating-deep-learning-a-gentle-introduction-to-autokeras-and-keras-tuner/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:17:07 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606590 How to save time and boost your models with these two approachable AutoML libraries.

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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> How to Maximize Technical Events — NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-maximize-technical-events-nvidia-gtc-paris-2025/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:03:48 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606477 Learn about my experience at NVIDIA GTC Paris 25, and how you can get the most out of similar technical events

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]]> Building A Modern Dashboard with Python and Taipy https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-modern-dashboard-with-python-and-taipy/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:06:57 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606390 A guide to building a front-end data application.

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]]> Trying to Stay Sane in the Age of AI https://towardsdatascience.com/trying-to-stay-sane-in-the-age-of-ai/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:50:40 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606237 A machine learning engineer’s quiet way of not losing her mind

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]]> Prototyping Gradient Descent in Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/prototyping-gradient-descent-in-machine-learning/ Sat, 24 May 2025 01:12:54 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606092 Mathematical theorem and credit transaction prediction using Stochastic / Batch GD

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]]> What the Most Detailed Peer-Reviewed Study on AI in the Classroom Taught Us https://towardsdatascience.com/what-the-most-detailed-peer-reviewed-study-on-ai-in-the-classroom-taught-us/ Tue, 20 May 2025 23:34:31 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606051 A meta analysis that turns out positive yet identifies the need for further research

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]]> Running Python Programs in Your Browser https://towardsdatascience.com/running-python-programs-in-your-browser/ Mon, 12 May 2025 19:15:32 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605991 Using Pyodide and Webassembly

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]]> NumExpr: The “Faster than Numpy” Library Most Data Scientists Have Never Used https://towardsdatascience.com/numexpr-the-faster-than-numpy-library-that-no-ones-heard-of/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:38:41 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605821 A comparative performance test with NumPy

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]]> An Existential Crisis of a Veteran Researcher in the Age of Generative AI https://towardsdatascience.com/an-existential-crisis-of-a-veteran-researcher-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:22:41 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605785 If you have had an existential moment in your career due to AI, let me know.

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