DBeaver tipps that you didn’t know of and that will make you more productive What’s DBeaver? DBeaver is a free database tool for basically everybody, doesn’t matter if you are a developer, database administrator or analyst. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac and can work with all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MS Access, Apache Hive, etc. …

Monitor your Airflow tasks from your favorite messenger — There is a lot of options when it comes to monitoring the status of your Airflow pipelines. In this article, I am going to show you why monitoring via Slack is a great option and walk you through the setup. By the end of this article you will know how…

Let’s focus on data — When we talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence in most cases we talk about models that we apply to tackle our classification or regression tasks: Some experts pledge their loyalty to ensemble models such as gradient boosted decision trees. Others try their luck with fine-tuning highly complex neural networks…

Through the lens of a satellite — For more than a week now we have been hearing news of devastating wildfires from Greece. Across all news sources and social media platforms, we can see horrifying images and videos that paint the picture of what is going on in Greece right now. A natural disaster of unprecedented proportions Media outlets…

Extensions that will help you create better plots more efficiently — Patchwork — arrange your graphs The goal of patchwork is to make it ridiculously simple to combine separate ggplots into the same graphic. To get started with this great library you need to remember three basic operators: + /and | . First, let’s install patchwork and create some plots. Basic usage Let us combine our plots into…

One year on after the devastating event — On August 4th 2020 more than 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, 217 people were killed and 7000 injured. The detonation could be heard in all of Lebanon and even in Israel. One year after the detonation the devastating effect can still be seen from…

Interpretability can save lives — Machine Learning models are famous for being black boxes that are complex and the reasoning behind their outputs and predictions are usually not interpretable. Do we need interpretability? However, when it comes to “high-stakes” decisions do we really want to trust a black box? For example when it comes to decisions in healthcare where…

As seen by satellite until August 2nd 2021 — “The 2021 Turkish wildfires are over a hundred wildfires mostly in the southern provinces of Turkey, and the worst in the country for more than 10 years. The wildfires started in Manavgat, Antalya on 28 July 2021, with a temperature around 37 °C (99 °F). As of 30 July 2021…