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In this article, we will take a look under the hood of scipy.stats, exploring five essential tricks to design high-performance, rigorous simulations using only NumPy and SciPy.

A simple explanation of what a data agent is and how it works The post What Is a Data Agent? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

This article covers Python libraries that make large-scale data processing faster, more scalable, and easier to manage across modern data workflows.

What a recent study on ChatGPT, Python, R, and Stata tells us about AI-assisted coding for causal inference The post Can AI Write Your Code? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Google didn’t just ship an update at I/O 2026. They redrew the map.  Google Antigravity 2.0 dropped on May 19th and it’s not an IDE refresh. It’s a full platform pivot from AI assisted coding, to multi agent orchestration as the core development model. If you’ve been keeping an eye on the Agentic co...

Simple step-by-step tutorial to building an AI agent in Python The post The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide to Building an AI Agent in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Unlock the power of API for data-driven solutions The post Beyond the Model: Why Data Scientists Must Embrace APIs and API Documentation appeared first on Towards Data Science.

pandas remains the default choice for notebooks, exploratory analysis, visualization, and machine learning workflows. Polars focus on fast, memory-efficient DataFrame processing, while DuckDB brings a SQL-first approach for querying local files and embedded analytics. Each tool fits a different kind...

Optimal Resolution in Histograms: A Rigorous Bayesian Approach to Density Fitting The post How to Mathematically Choose the Optimal Bins for Your Histogram appeared first on Towards Data Science.

An intro to recommender systems The post Beyond the Scroll: How Social Media Algorithms Shape Your Reality appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The tension between Legal and IT has always been frustrating but AI is about to make it worse, at scale. The answer is observable compliance: encoding legal intent directly into architecture. The post Lost in Translation: How AI Exposes the Rift Between Law and Logic appeared first on Towards Data ...

If you don't want to be left behind, start doing these things with Claude The post 3 Claude Skills Every Data Scientist Needs in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Ace system design interviews with 10 GitHub repositories packed with fundamentals, proven patterns, and real questions to help you design scalable systems with confidence.

Whenever you can rewrite an optimization problem so that fixing some variables makes the rest separable, you could try Benders. The post Benders’ Decomposition 101: How to Crack Open a Stochastic Program That’s Too Big to Swallow Whole appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Take a curated look at the best small language models currently available on Hugging Face, what each one is actually good at, the benchmark numbers that back those claims up, and the code to get started with each one.

I have been experimenting with the OpenAI Agents SDK, and it has quickly become one of my favorite ways to build agentic AI applications.

By the middle of 2026, we can easily assume on thing about AI – it is far from the experimental stage. If not before, 2026 is the year when AI is moving deeper into products, workplaces, governments, and everyday decision-making. This shift is visible in the massive AI conferences that are now being...

You know window functions, but do you know how to use them to solve business problems? You will after you read this article.

Apply coding agents to your domain in a safe manner The post How to Safely Run Coding Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

From your first backtest to a real trading system, here are GitHub repos that can seriously level up your quant trading skills fast.

The syntax and semantics of mathematics The post Introduction to Lean for Programmers appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Cowork is an autonomous agent that lives inside the Claude Desktop app, which has direct access to a folder on your computer, and can plan, execute, and deliver real work.

Want to level up your data engineering toolkit? Here are some Python libraries that'll make your pipelines faster, cleaner, and easier to maintain.

A scalable semantic localization layer for entity and relationship reconciliation The post Proxy-Pointer RAG: Solving Entity and Relationship Sprawl in Large Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Science.