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Learning audio embeddings with contrastive learning and deploying them in a real music recommendation app The post How Convolutional Neural Networks Learn Musical Similarity appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Dates and times shouldn’t break your code, but they often do. These five DIY Python functions help turn real-world dates and times into clean, usable data.

An accessible introduction to causal inference and ML The post Causal ML for the Aspiring Data Scientist appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Modern AI applications rely on intelligent agents that think, cooperate, and execute complex workflows, while single-agent systems struggle with scalability, coordination, and long-term context. AgentScope AI addresses this by offering a modular, extensible framework for building structured multi-ag...

I just downloaded the latest 4 Billion parameter model. I hit ‘Run‘. After a while, the Google Colab instance crashes. Sounds familiar? Well this is bound to happen if we don’t pay attention to the required VRAM and what VRAM we are providing to the model. Quantization is something that can help you...

Why specialized models still hold the 30x speed advantage in production environments The post SAM 3 vs. Specialist Models — A Performance Benchmark appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Compare Azure ML and AWS SageMaker for scalable model training, focusing on project setup, permission management, and data storage patterns, to align platform choices with existing cloud ecosystem and preferred MLOps workflows The post Azure ML vs. AWS SageMaker: A Deep Dive into Model Training — Pa...

An introduction to neural machine translation The post How to Build a Neural Machine Translation System for a Low-Resource Language appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Understand air quality: access the available data, interpret data types, and execute starter codes The post Air for Tomorrow: Mapping the Digital Air-Quality Landscape, from Repositories and Data Types to Starter Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.

At its core, ML involves algorithms that analyze data, recognize patterns, and make predictions. These models “learn” from past data to improve their performance over time. For example, an ML model trained on user purchase history can predict which products a customer might buy next. Artificial Inte...

Job descriptions of Data Engineering roles have changed drastically over the years. In 2026, these read less like data plumbing and more like production engineering. You are expected to ship pipelines that don’t break at 2 AM, scale cleanly, and stay compliant while they do it. So, no – “I know Pyth...

Python remains at the forefront data science, it is still very popular and useful till date. But on the other hand strengthens the foundation underneath. It becomes necessary where performance, memory control, and predictability become important.

How prompt engineering has evolved, examined scientifically; and implications for the future of conversational AI tools The post Why the Sophistication of Your Prompt Correlates Almost Perfectly with the Sophistication of the Response, as Research by Anthropic Found appeared first on Towards Data Sc...

Customer churn is usually a gradual process, not a sudden event. In this post, we analyze monthly transaction trends and convert regression slopes into degrees to clearly identify declining purchase behavior. A small negative slope today can prevent a big revenue loss tomorrow. The post From Transac...

How to evaluate goal-oriented content designed to build engagement and deliver business results, and why structure matters. The post Evaluating Multi-Step LLM-Generated Content: Why Customer Journeys Require Structural Metrics appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How I use analytics, automation, and AI to build better SaaS The post Why SaaS Product Management Is the Best Domain for Data-Driven Professionals in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Master the art of readable, high-performance data selection using .query(), .isin(), and advanced vectorized logic. The post Stop Writing Messy Boolean Masks: 10 Elegant Ways to Filter Pandas DataFrames appeared first on Towards Data Science.

How shared meaning, evidence, and standards create durable semantic infrastructure The post What Other Industries Can Learn from Healthcare’s Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Science.

In the past couple of years, we have seen vibe coding evolve from just an idea that sounded “fancy” to a full-time practice for many budding developers. What used to sound like a gimmick is now a must-have skill, even in the professional world. Proof? The recent round of funding secured by one such ...

Are you following the trend or genuinely interested in Machine Learning? Either way, you will need the right resources to TRUST, LEARN and SUCCEED. If you are unable to find the right Machine Learning resource in 2026? We are here to help. Let’s reiterate the definition of Machine Learning… Machine ...

Understanding data starts with statistics. These 7 statistics concepts give you the foundation to analyze and interpret with confidence.

Google Trends is one of the most widely used tools for analysing human behaviour at scale. Journalists use it. Data scientists use it. Entire papers are built on it. But there is a fundamental property of Google Trends data that makes it very easy to misuse, especially if you are working with time s...

Through the lens of a serial entrepreneur, this article explores how the AI revolution is shifting from infrastructure to the application layer, where the greatest opportunities lie in solving specialized, data-heavy industry problems rather than perfecting raw technology.

Learn from my mistakes and fast track your data science career The post If You Want to Become a Data Scientist in 2026, Do This appeared first on Towards Data Science.