COVID-19 showed us how challenging a crisis could be. For the climate crisis, though, there is no vaccine. It is frustrating when anything stronger than us takes away our rights. COVID-19 thought us a hard lesson when it forced us to stay in lockdown for weeks or months. …

Five tips to sharpen your storytelling and demonstrate the best value of your data science experiments. — I know… Slides. Most data scientists hate building them. It is frustrating because you spend loads of time designing them and, often, the results are not as good as you expect. But don't be sad, I am here to help you make your slide-building funnier. As you may have already…

It's not easy to think like a businessman when you are a data scientist. Here goes some advice. — Data scientists are commonly trained to measure the value of a piece of research or a mathematical technique. We read and write papers, reports, theses, and evaluate if the presented method is sound and useful to solve a particular problem. …

Although data science became popular with the advances in machine learning and AI, science is a much broader topic. — In the past few years, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and ultimately data science rose as the buzzword of the industry. Of course, there is a reason for this phenomenon. New algorithms and new hardware made complex prediction systems affordable for many companies. It's not hard to find a use case…

Quando você usa uma palavra no seu texto, ela fica na sua memória recente e você quer usá-la outra vez, e depois mais uma vez… Pelo menos comigo, isso acontece. Acho difícil evitar tal erro, mas podemos detectá-lo automaticamente. No meu artigo anterior, mostrei como fiz um contador de palavras…

E se criássemos uma inteligência artificial para revisar e criticar nossos textos? Melhor que ensinar as máquinas a jogar Xadrez, não? Ao menos para quem escreve.