📚 Data Science Riddle
Your estimate has high variance. Best fix?
Your estimate has high variance. Best fix?
Anonymous Quiz
57%
Increase sample size
26%
Change confidence level
8%
Reduce bin count
8%
Switch to bootstrap
The Difference Between Model Accuracy and Business Accuracy
A model can be 95% accurate…
yet deliver 0% business value.
Why❔
Because data science metrics ≠ business metrics.
📌 Examples:
- A fraud model catches tiny fraud but misses large ones
- A churn model predicts already obvious churners
- A recommendation model boosts clicks but reduces revenue
Always align ML metrics with business KPIs.
Otherwise, your “great model” is just a great illusion.
A model can be 95% accurate…
yet deliver 0% business value.
Why❔
Because data science metrics ≠ business metrics.
📌 Examples:
- A fraud model catches tiny fraud but misses large ones
- A churn model predicts already obvious churners
- A recommendation model boosts clicks but reduces revenue
Always align ML metrics with business KPIs.
Otherwise, your “great model” is just a great illusion.
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📚 Data Science Riddle
Your model's loss fluctuates but doesn't decrease overall. What's the most likely issue?
Your model's loss fluctuates but doesn't decrease overall. What's the most likely issue?
Anonymous Quiz
27%
Gradient exploding
41%
Weak regularization
19%
Small batch size
13%
Slow optimizer
✅ Complete AI (Artificial Intelligence) Roadmap 🤖🚀
1️⃣ Basics of AI
🔹 What is AI?
🔹 Types: Narrow AI vs General AI
🔹 AI vs ML vs DL
🔹 Real-world applications
2️⃣ Python for AI
🔹 Python syntax & libraries
🔹 NumPy, Pandas for data handling
🔹 Matplotlib, Seaborn for visualization
3️⃣ Math Foundation
🔹 Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices
🔹 Probability & Statistics
🔹 Calculus basics
🔹 Optimization techniques
4️⃣ Machine Learning (ML)
🔹 Supervised vs Unsupervised
🔹 Regression, Classification, Clustering
🔹 Scikit-learn for ML
🔹 Model evaluation metrics
5️⃣ Deep Learning (DL)
🔹 Neural Networks basics
🔹 Activation functions, backpropagation
🔹 TensorFlow / PyTorch
🔹 CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs
6️⃣ NLP (Natural Language Processing)
🔹 Text cleaning & tokenization
🔹 Word embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe)
🔹 Transformers & BERT
🔹 Chatbots & summarization
7️⃣ Computer Vision
🔹 Image processing basics
🔹 OpenCV for CV tasks
🔹 Object detection, image classification
🔹 CNN architectures (ResNet, YOLO)
8️⃣ Model Deployment
🔹 Streamlit / Flask APIs
🔹 Docker for containerization
🔹 Deploy on cloud: Render, Hugging Face, AWS
9️⃣ Tools & Ecosystem
🔹 Git & GitHub
🔹 Jupyter Notebooks
🔹 DVC, MLflow (for tracking models)
🔟 Build AI Projects
🔹 Chatbot, Face recognition
🔹 Spam classifier, Stock prediction
🔹 Language translator, Object detector
1️⃣ Basics of AI
🔹 What is AI?
🔹 Types: Narrow AI vs General AI
🔹 AI vs ML vs DL
🔹 Real-world applications
2️⃣ Python for AI
🔹 Python syntax & libraries
🔹 NumPy, Pandas for data handling
🔹 Matplotlib, Seaborn for visualization
3️⃣ Math Foundation
🔹 Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices
🔹 Probability & Statistics
🔹 Calculus basics
🔹 Optimization techniques
4️⃣ Machine Learning (ML)
🔹 Supervised vs Unsupervised
🔹 Regression, Classification, Clustering
🔹 Scikit-learn for ML
🔹 Model evaluation metrics
5️⃣ Deep Learning (DL)
🔹 Neural Networks basics
🔹 Activation functions, backpropagation
🔹 TensorFlow / PyTorch
🔹 CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs
6️⃣ NLP (Natural Language Processing)
🔹 Text cleaning & tokenization
🔹 Word embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe)
🔹 Transformers & BERT
🔹 Chatbots & summarization
7️⃣ Computer Vision
🔹 Image processing basics
🔹 OpenCV for CV tasks
🔹 Object detection, image classification
🔹 CNN architectures (ResNet, YOLO)
8️⃣ Model Deployment
🔹 Streamlit / Flask APIs
🔹 Docker for containerization
🔹 Deploy on cloud: Render, Hugging Face, AWS
9️⃣ Tools & Ecosystem
🔹 Git & GitHub
🔹 Jupyter Notebooks
🔹 DVC, MLflow (for tracking models)
🔟 Build AI Projects
🔹 Chatbot, Face recognition
🔹 Spam classifier, Stock prediction
🔹 Language translator, Object detector
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📚 Data Science Riddle - CNN Kernels
Which convolution increases channel depth but not spatial size?
Which convolution increases channel depth but not spatial size?
Anonymous Quiz
9%
1x1 convolution
29%
3x3 convolution
46%
Depthwise convolution
16%
Transposed convolution
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Normalization vs Standardization: Why They’re Not the Same
People treat these two as interchangeable. they’re not.
👉 Normalization (Min-Max scaling):
Compresses values to 0–1.
Useful when magnitude matters (pixel values, distances).
👉 Standardization (Z-score):
Centers data around mean=0, std=1.
Useful when distribution shape matters (linear/logistic regression, PCA).
🔑 Key idea:
Normalization preserves relative proportions.
Standardization preserves statistical structure.
Pick the wrong one, and your model’s geometry becomes distorted.
People treat these two as interchangeable. they’re not.
👉 Normalization (Min-Max scaling):
Compresses values to 0–1.
Useful when magnitude matters (pixel values, distances).
👉 Standardization (Z-score):
Centers data around mean=0, std=1.
Useful when distribution shape matters (linear/logistic regression, PCA).
🔑 Key idea:
Normalization preserves relative proportions.
Standardization preserves statistical structure.
Pick the wrong one, and your model’s geometry becomes distorted.
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Hey everyone 👋
Tomorrow we are kicking off a new short & free series called:
📊 Data Importing Series 📊
We’ll go through all the real ways to pull data into Python:
→ CSV, Excel, JSON and more
→ Databases & SQL databases
→ APIs, Google Sheets, even PDFs
Short lessons, ready-to-copy code, zero boring theory.
First part drops tomorrow.
Turn on notifications so you don’t miss it 🔔
Who’s excited? React with a 🔥 if you are.
Tomorrow we are kicking off a new short & free series called:
📊 Data Importing Series 📊
We’ll go through all the real ways to pull data into Python:
→ CSV, Excel, JSON and more
→ Databases & SQL databases
→ APIs, Google Sheets, even PDFs
Short lessons, ready-to-copy code, zero boring theory.
First part drops tomorrow.
Turn on notifications so you don’t miss it 🔔
Who’s excited? React with a 🔥 if you are.
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Loading a CSV file in Python
CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values the most common format for tabular data everywhere.
With pandas, turning a CSV into a powerful, queryable DataFrame takes just a few clear lines.
Next up ➡️ Loading an Excel file in Python
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CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values the most common format for tabular data everywhere.
With pandas, turning a CSV into a powerful, queryable DataFrame takes just a few clear lines.
# Import the pandas library
import pandas as pd
# Specify the path to your CSV file
filename = "data.csv"
# Read the CSV file into a DataFrame
df = pd.read_csv(filename)
#Checking the first five rows
df.head()
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Loading an Excel file in Python
Excel files are packed with headers, logos, merged cells, and multiple sheets but pandas handles it all.
With just a few extra parameters, you can skip junk rows, pick exact columns,e.t.c
Next up ➡️ Loading a text file in Python
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Excel files are packed with headers, logos, merged cells, and multiple sheets but pandas handles it all.
With just a few extra parameters, you can skip junk rows, pick exact columns,e.t.c
# Import the pandas library
import pandas as pd
# Specify the path to your Excel file (.xlsx or .xls)
filename = "data.xlsx"
# Read the Excel file into a DataFrame
# Common options you'll use all the time:
df = pd.read_excel(
filename,
sheet_name=0, # 0 = first sheet
header=0, # Row (0-indexed) to use as column names
skiprows=4, # Skip first 4 rows
nrows=1000, # Load only first 1000 rows
)
# Check the first five rows
df.head()
Next up ➡️ Loading a text file in Python
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📚 Data Science Riddle - Numerical Optimization
Which method uses second-order curvature information?
Which method uses second-order curvature information?
Anonymous Quiz
30%
SGD
21%
Momentum
33%
Adam
16%
Newton's method
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Loading a text file in Python
Text files (.txt) are perfect for logs, books, raw notes, or any unstructured data.
With one clean line using pathlib, you can load an entire novel, log file, or dataset into a string
Next up ➡️ Loading a JSON file in Python
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Text files (.txt) are perfect for logs, books, raw notes, or any unstructured data.
With one clean line using pathlib, you can load an entire novel, log file, or dataset into a string
# Loading a text file in Python
filename = 'huck_finn.txt' # Name of the file to open
file = open(filename, mode='r') # Open file in read mode ('r')
# Use encoding='utf-8' if needed
text = file.read() # Read entire content into a string
print(file.closed) # False → file is still open
file.close() # Always close the file when done!
# Prevents memory leaks & file locks
print(file.closed) # Now True → file is safely closed
print(text) # Display the full text content
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Loading a JSON file in Python
JSON is the king of APIs, config files, NoSQL databases, and web data.
With Python’s built-in json module (or pandas), you go from file to usable data in seconds
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JSON is the king of APIs, config files, NoSQL databases, and web data.
With Python’s built-in json module (or pandas), you go from file to usable data in seconds
# Import json module (built-in, no install needed!)
import json
# Or import pandas if you want it directly as a DataFrame
import pandas as pd
# Your JSON file path
filename = "data.json"
# Load JSON file into a Python dictionary/list
with open(filename, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
data = json.load(file)
# Quick look at structure and first few items
print(type(data)) # usually dict or list
print(data.keys() if isinstance(data, dict) else len(data))
# Load the json file
df = pd.read_json(filename)
df.head()
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📚 Data Science Riddle - NLP
You want a model to capture meaning similarity between sentences. What representation is best?
You want a model to capture meaning similarity between sentences. What representation is best?
Anonymous Quiz
21%
One-hot vectors
36%
TF-IDF
38%
Embeddings
5%
Character counts
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An API (Application Programming Interface) allows different software systems to communicate with each other. In data science and software development, APIs are commonly used to retrieve data from web services such as social media platforms, financial systems, weather services, and databases hosted online.
Python provides powerful libraries that make it easy to import and process data from APIs efficiently.
Making API Requests in Python
HTTP Methods
GET – retrieve data
POST – send data
PUT – update data
DELETE – remove data
Next up ➡️ Importing API Data into a Pandas DataFrame
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Python provides powerful libraries that make it easy to import and process data from APIs efficiently.
Making API Requests in Python
HTTP Methods
GET – retrieve data
POST – send data
PUT – update data
DELETE – remove data
Next up ➡️ Importing API Data into a Pandas DataFrame
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Importing API Data into a Pandas DataFrame
Next up ➡️ API Key Authentication
import requests # Library for making HTTP requests
import pandas as pd # Library for data manipulation and analysis
# API endpoint
url = "https://api.example.com/users"
# Send request to API
response = requests.get(url)
# Convert JSON response to Python object
data = response.json()
# Convert the JSON data into a pandas DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
# Display the first five rows of the DataFrame
print(df.head())
Next up ➡️ API Key Authentication
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API Key Authentication
Next up ➡️ Importing Pickle files in python
import requests
# API endpoint
url = "https://api.example.com/data"
# Parameters including the API key for authentication
params = {
"api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY" # Replace with your actual API key
}
# Send GET request with parameters
response = requests.get(url, params=params)
# Convert JSON response to Python object
data = response.json()
# Print the data
print(data)
Next up ➡️ Importing Pickle files in python
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Pickle Files
Pickle files (.pkl) are used to store serialized Python objects such as DataFrames, lists, dictionaries, or trained models. They allow quick saving and loading of Python objects without converting them to text formats.
Importing Pickle files in python
Using Pickle with Pandas
Next up ➡️ Importing HTML Tables
Pickle files (.pkl) are used to store serialized Python objects such as DataFrames, lists, dictionaries, or trained models. They allow quick saving and loading of Python objects without converting them to text formats.
Importing Pickle files in python
import pickle # Library for object serialization
# Open the pickle file in read-binary mode
with open("data.pkl", "rb") as file:
data = pickle.load(file) # Load the stored Python object
Using Pickle with Pandas
import pandas as pd
# Load a pickled pandas DataFrame
df = pd.read_pickle("data.pkl")
Next up ➡️ Importing HTML Tables
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HTML Tables
HTML tables are commonly found on websites and can be imported into Python for analysis by extracting table data directly from web pages. This is useful for collecting publicly available data without manually copying it.
Importing HTML Tables Using Pandas
Next up ➡️ Big Data Formats
HTML tables are commonly found on websites and can be imported into Python for analysis by extracting table data directly from web pages. This is useful for collecting publicly available data without manually copying it.
Importing HTML Tables Using Pandas
import pandas as pd
# URL of the webpage containing HTML tables
url = "https://example.com/page"
# Read all tables from the webpage
tables = pd.read_html(url)
# Select the first table
df = tables[0]
Next up ➡️ Big Data Formats
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Big Data Formats
Big Data formats such as Parquet, ORC, and Feather are designed for efficient storage and fast access when working with large datasets. They are optimized for performance, compression, and scalability, making them ideal for data science and big data applications.
Parquet
Parquet is a columnar storage format widely used in big data ecosystems such as Apache Spark and Hadoop. It allows efficient reading of selected columns and supports strong compression.
ORC (Optimized Row Columnar)
ORC is a columnar format optimized for high-performance analytics and commonly used in Hadoop-based systems.
Feather
Feather is a lightweight binary format designed for fast data exchange between Python and other languages like R.
✅ This concludes our Data Importing Series.
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Big Data formats such as Parquet, ORC, and Feather are designed for efficient storage and fast access when working with large datasets. They are optimized for performance, compression, and scalability, making them ideal for data science and big data applications.
Parquet
Parquet is a columnar storage format widely used in big data ecosystems such as Apache Spark and Hadoop. It allows efficient reading of selected columns and supports strong compression.
import pandas as pd
# Read Parquet file into a DataFrame
df = pd.read_parquet("data.parquet")
ORC (Optimized Row Columnar)
ORC is a columnar format optimized for high-performance analytics and commonly used in Hadoop-based systems.
import pandas as pd
# Read ORC file into a DataFrame
df = pd.read_orc("data.orc")
Feather
Feather is a lightweight binary format designed for fast data exchange between Python and other languages like R.
import pandas as pd
# Read Feather file into a DataFrame
df = pd.read_feather("data.feather")
✅ This concludes our Data Importing Series.
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Sometimes reality outpaces expectations in the most unexpected ways.
While global AI development seems increasingly fragmented, Sber just released Europe's largest open-source AI collection—full weights, code, and commercial rights included.
✅ No API paywalls.
✅ No usage restrictions.
✅ Just four complete model families ready to run in your private infrastructure, fine-tuned on your data, serving your specific needs.
What makes this release remarkable isn't merely the technical prowess, but the quiet confidence behind sharing it openly when others are building walls. Find out more in the article from the developers.
GigaChat Ultra Preview: 702B-parameter MoE model (36B active per token) with 128K context window. Trained from scratch, it outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 on specialized benchmarks while maintaining faster inference than previous flagships. Enterprise-ready with offline fine-tuning for secure environments.
GitHub | HuggingFace
GigaChat Lightning offers the opposite balance: compact yet powerful MoE architecture running on your laptop. It competes with Qwen3-4B in quality, matches the speed of Qwen3-1.7B, yet is significantly smarter and larger in parameter count.
Lightning holds its own against the best open-source models in its class, outperforms comparable models on different tasks, and delivers ultra-fast inference—making it ideal for scenarios where Ultra would be overkill and speed is critical. Plus, it features stable expert routing and a welcome bonus: 256K context support.
GitHub | Hugging Face
Kandinsky 5.0 brings a significant step forward in open generative models. The flagship Video Pro matches Veo 3 in visual quality and outperforms Wan 2.2-A14B, while Video Lite and Image Lite offer fast, lightweight alternatives for real-time use cases. The suite is powered by K-VAE 1.0, a high-efficiency open-source visual encoder that enables strong compression and serves as a solid base for training generative models. This stack balances performance, scalability, and practicality—whether you're building video pipelines or experimenting with multimodal generation.
GitHub | Hugging Face | Technical report
Audio gets its upgrade too: GigaAM-v3 delivers speech recognition model with 50% lower WER than Whisper-large-v3, trained on 700k hours of audio with punctuation/normalization for spontaneous speech.
GitHub | HuggingFace
Every model can be deployed on-premises, fine-tuned on your data, and used commercially. It's not just about catching up – it's about building sovereign AI infrastructure that belongs to everyone who needs it.
While global AI development seems increasingly fragmented, Sber just released Europe's largest open-source AI collection—full weights, code, and commercial rights included.
✅ No API paywalls.
✅ No usage restrictions.
✅ Just four complete model families ready to run in your private infrastructure, fine-tuned on your data, serving your specific needs.
What makes this release remarkable isn't merely the technical prowess, but the quiet confidence behind sharing it openly when others are building walls. Find out more in the article from the developers.
GigaChat Ultra Preview: 702B-parameter MoE model (36B active per token) with 128K context window. Trained from scratch, it outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 on specialized benchmarks while maintaining faster inference than previous flagships. Enterprise-ready with offline fine-tuning for secure environments.
GitHub | HuggingFace
GigaChat Lightning offers the opposite balance: compact yet powerful MoE architecture running on your laptop. It competes with Qwen3-4B in quality, matches the speed of Qwen3-1.7B, yet is significantly smarter and larger in parameter count.
Lightning holds its own against the best open-source models in its class, outperforms comparable models on different tasks, and delivers ultra-fast inference—making it ideal for scenarios where Ultra would be overkill and speed is critical. Plus, it features stable expert routing and a welcome bonus: 256K context support.
GitHub | Hugging Face
Kandinsky 5.0 brings a significant step forward in open generative models. The flagship Video Pro matches Veo 3 in visual quality and outperforms Wan 2.2-A14B, while Video Lite and Image Lite offer fast, lightweight alternatives for real-time use cases. The suite is powered by K-VAE 1.0, a high-efficiency open-source visual encoder that enables strong compression and serves as a solid base for training generative models. This stack balances performance, scalability, and practicality—whether you're building video pipelines or experimenting with multimodal generation.
GitHub | Hugging Face | Technical report
Audio gets its upgrade too: GigaAM-v3 delivers speech recognition model with 50% lower WER than Whisper-large-v3, trained on 700k hours of audio with punctuation/normalization for spontaneous speech.
GitHub | HuggingFace
Every model can be deployed on-premises, fine-tuned on your data, and used commercially. It's not just about catching up – it's about building sovereign AI infrastructure that belongs to everyone who needs it.
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📚 Data Science Riddle - Dimensionality Reduction
You want to visualize high-dimensional clusters while keeping neighborhood structure intact. What should you use?
You want to visualize high-dimensional clusters while keeping neighborhood structure intact. What should you use?
Anonymous Quiz
57%
PCA
26%
t-SNE
10%
Label encoding
7%
Min-max scaling
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