Editors Pick | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/editors-pick/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:42:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Editors Pick | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/editors-pick/ 32 32 6 Technical Skills That Make You a Senior Data Scientist https://towardsdatascience.com/6-technical-skills-that-make-you-a-senior-data-scientist/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:43:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607905 Beyond writing code, these are the design-level decisions, trade-offs, and habits that quietly separate senior data scientists from everyone else.

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]]> NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Review: Qwen’s Systematic Exploration of Attention Gating https://towardsdatascience.com/neurips-2025-best-paper-review-qwens-systematic-exploration-of-attention-gating/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:16:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607899 This one little trick can bring about enhanced training stability, the use of larger learning rates and improved scaling properties

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]]> Drawing Shapes with the Python Turtle Module https://towardsdatascience.com/drawing-shapes-with-the-python-turtle-module/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607880 A step-by-step tutorial that explores the Python Turtle Module

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]]> How Agent Handoffs Work in Multi-Agent Systems https://towardsdatascience.com/how-agent-handoffs-work-in-multi-agent-systems/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607875 Understanding how LLM agents transfer control to each other in a multi-agent system with LangGraph

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]]> How to Develop AI-Powered Solutions, Accelerated by AI https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-develop-ai-powered-solutions-accelerated-by-ai/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607861 From idea to impact :  using AI as your accelerating copilot

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]]> GraphRAG in Practice: How to Build Cost-Efficient, High-Recall Retrieval Systems https://towardsdatascience.com/graphrag-in-practice-how-to-build-cost-efficient-high-recall-retrieval-systems/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607859 Smarter retrieval strategies that outperform dense graphs — with hybrid pipelines and lower cost

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]]> Bridging the Silence: How LEO Satellites and Edge AI Will Democratize Connectivity https://towardsdatascience.com/bridging-the-silence-how-leo-satellites-and-edge-ai-will-democratize-connectivity/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607853 Why on-device intelligence and low-orbit constellations are the only viable path to universal accessibility

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]]> Reading Research Papers in the Age of LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/reading-research-papers-in-the-age-of-llms/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607833 How I keep up with papers with a mix of manual and AI-assisted reading

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]]> A Product Data Scientist’s Take on LinkedIn Games After 500 Days of Play https://towardsdatascience.com/a-product-data-scientists-take-on-linkedin-games-after-500-days-of-play/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607818 What a simple puzzle game reveals about experimentation, product thinking, and data science

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]]> Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem https://towardsdatascience.com/emergent-object-binding-from-self-supervised-not-supervised-learning/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607810 A new NeurIPS 2025 paper shows how self-supervised learning imbues ViT with better image understanding than supervised learning

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]]> The Best Data Scientists are Always Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/part-1-the-best-data-scientists-are-always-learning/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607798 Why continuous learning matters & how to come up with topics to study

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]]> Overcoming the Hidden Performance Traps of Variable-Shaped Tensors: Efficient Data Sampling in PyTorch https://towardsdatascience.com/overcoming-the-hidden-performance-traps-of-variable-shaped-tensors-efficient-data-sampling-in-pytorch/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607796 PyTorch Model Performance Analysis and Optimization — Part 11

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]]> Multi-Agent Arena: Insights from London Great Agent Hack 2025 https://towardsdatascience.com/multi-agent-arena-london-great-agent-hack-2025/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607792 What mattered: robust agents, glass-box reasoning, and red-team resilience

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]]> How to Generate QR Codes in Python https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-generate-qr-code-in-python/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607782 A beginner-friendly tutorial exploring the Python "qrcode" Package

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]]> The Greedy Boruta Algorithm: Faster Feature Selection Without Sacrificing Recall https://towardsdatascience.com/the-greedy-boruta-algorithm-faster-feature-selection-without-sacrificing-recall/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607762 A modification to the Boruta algorithm that dramatically reduces computation while maintaining high sensitivity

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]]> Metric Deception: When Your Best KPIs Hide Your Worst Failures https://towardsdatascience.com/metric-deception-when-your-best-kpis-hide-your-worst-failures/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607765 The most dangerous KPIs aren’t broken; they’re the ones trusted long after they’ve lost their meaning.

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]]> Data Science in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-in-2026-is-it-still-worth-it/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607767 An honest view from a 10-year AI Engineer

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]]> Training Objective That Makes LLM Inference 3X Faster https://towardsdatascience.com/why-weve-been-optimizing-the-wrong-thing-in-llms-for-years/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607748 The simple shift in training that unlocks foresight, faster inference, and better reasoning.

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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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]]> Everyday Decisions are Noisier Than You Think — Here’s How AI Can Help Fix That https://towardsdatascience.com/everyday-decisions-are-noisier-than-you-think-heres-how-ai-can-help-fix-that/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607744 From insurance premiums to courtrooms: the impact of noise

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