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Research projects in the age of AI The post It’s the Lessons We Learned Along the Way. Or, Is It? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

In this article, we will dive deep into five must-know Python concepts that will help you transition from writing clunky, slow spaghetti code to constructing lightning-fast, production-grade, and beautifully functional data pipelines.

Google has made the Gemini ecosystem confusing as hell. You have the Gemini App, which looks like a normal AI chatbot. Then you have Google AI Studio, which also looks like… a chatbot! But on steroids. So the obvious question is: why do both of these coexist? Here’s the clean answer: Gemini App is f...

How Knives Out teaches Bayesian thinking (without you realizing it)  The post Solving a Murder Mystery Using Bayesian Inference appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #2bis] Why stacking a reranker on top of weak retrieval doesn’t save it, what cross-encoders actually fix vs what they don’t, and where the editorial position of the series lands. The post Rerankers Aren’t Magic Either: When the Cross-Encoder Layer Is Worth t...

As AI gets smarter, the real differentiator may be how well humans regulate their own thinking. The post Meta-Cognitive Regulation Might Be the Most Important AI Skill Nobody Is Talking About appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #2] Why the same vector search that handles synonyms and paraphrase silently fails on negation, exact identifiers, and your company’s acronyms, and what to use when it does. The post Embeddings Aren’t Magic: The Predictable Failure Modes of RAG Retrieval appe...

Most engineers see quantization as shrinking vectors. TurboQuant asks a harder question: can you shrink them without breaking their geometry? The post Qdrant TurboQuant Explained: Is TurboQuant the Silver Bullet? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #1] The smallest version of RAG that actually works, on a real PDF, with grounded answers and the source lines highlighted. The post Baseline Enterprise RAG, From PDF to Highlighted Answer appeared first on Towards Data Science.

A step-by-step journey from calculus-based optimization to Stochastic Gradient Descent The post Why Gradient Descent Became Stochastic appeared first on Towards Data Science.

One of the most important concepts in DAX is lineage. It’s about the information on where something comes from. Let’s see what it is and how we can manipulate it. The post Explaining Lineage in DAX appeared first on Towards Data Science.

And what ORPilot does differently The post Why AI Still Can’t Solve Your Real Mathematical Optimization Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Explore seven practical AI projects that automate real workflows, including job search, web research, investment research, market trend analysis, invoice processing, chart digitization, and personalized exercise training.

Keep an overview of all your coding agents that run in parallel The post How to Effectively Run Many Claude Code Sessions in Parallel appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn how to use Pandas GroupBy to summarize, compare, and analyze grouped data with simple, practical examples.

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.