Meet the Expert with Yoshi Nobu Masatani (National Institute of Informatics)

Raj Singh offers an overview of PixieDust, a Jupyter Notebook extension that provides an easy way to make interactive maps from DataFrames for visual exploratory data analysis. Raj explains how he built mapping into PixieDust, putting data from Apache Spark-based analytics on maps using Mapbox GL.

Music engages and delights. Carol Willing explains how to explore and teach the basics of interactive computing and data science by combining music with Jupyter notebooks, using music21, a tool for computer-aided musicology, and Magenta, a TensorFlow project for making music with machine learning, to create collaborative narratives and publishing materials for teaching and learning.

Patty Ryan, Lee Stott, and Michael Lanzetta explore four industry examples of Jupyter notebooks that illustrate innovative applications of machine learning in manufacturing, retail, services, and education and share four reference industry Jupyter notebooks (available in both Python and R)along with demo datasetsfor practical application to your specific industry value areas.

Paco Nathan explains how O'Reilly employs AI, from the obvious (chatbots, case studies about other firms) to the less so (using AI to show the structure of content in detail, enhance search and recommendations, and guide editors for gap analysis, assessment, pathing, etc.). Approaches include vector embedding search, summarization, TDA for content gap analysis, and speech-to-text to index video.

The phrase 'Open Source', to many people, means 'software you don't have to pay for'but actually it's much more than that. It's a way of thinking and working focused on transparency and collaborating …

Data science is a hot topic. Bart De Vylder offers a practical introduction that goes beyond the hype, exploring data analysis, visualization, and machine-learning techniques using Python for modeling the behavior of distributed systems. You'll leave with a solid starting point to implement data science techniques in your infrastructure or domain of interest.