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Researchers find ‘inconsistent’ benchmarking across 3,867 AI research papers
The metrics used to benchmark AI and machine learning models often inadequately reflect those models’ true performances. That’s according to a preprint study from researchers at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support in Vienna, which analyzed data in over 3,000 model performance results from the open source web-based platform Papers with Code.

Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
[...] data science products and services can rarely be designed up-front. They need to be learned and developed via iteration. Yet, when development is distributed among multiple specialists, several forces can hamper iteration cycles. Coordination costs, the time spent communicating, discussing, justifying, each change, scale proportionally with the number of people involved.

30+ new webinars to keep yourself up to date on recent Microsoft Data Platform solutions
We are launching a new series of webinars covering the latest Microsoft Data Platform solutions to help you be your company’s modern data platform expert. From Azure SQL and SQL 2019 to open source databases on Azure, learn about the latest updates, migration best practices, optimization tactics, as well as all the tools and resources.

Harvard Business Review: Why IT Fumbles Analytics
In their quest to extract insights from the massive amounts of data now available from internal and external sources, many companies are spending heavily on IT tools and hiring data scientists. Yet most are struggling to achieve a worthwhile return. That’s because they treat their big data and analytics projects the same way they treat all IT projects, not realizing that the two are completely different animals.

Pylance introduces five new features that enable type magic for Python developers
With the latest release of Pylance (version 2020.9.4) we are excited to introduce features that bring us closer to the goal of helping developers write correct Python code faster and more easily.

McKinsey: Leadership’s role in fixing the analytics models that COVID-19 broke
COVID-19 has upended life as we knew it, and our new behaviors are wreaking similar havoc on some analytics models that rely on historical data. How can leaders enable teams to get analytics back on track?

Événements

Microsoft Ignite
Tuesday 22 September 2020 @ 09:00
Microsoft Ignite will be launched as a complimentary digital event experience this September. Join us to learn innovative ways to build solutions, migrate and manage your infrastructure, and connect with Microsoft experts and other technology professionals from around the globe.

OpenMined Privacy Conference
Saturday 26 September 2020 @ 10:00
A free event organised by the OpenMined community covering all aspects of privacy-related technology research, deployments and issues.

Meetup Montreal-Python #80: Kayak à pédales - Call for speakers
Monday 28 September 2020 @ 17:30
Vous êtes intéressé.e à présenter lors de Montréal-Python 80 ? Écrivez-nous et joignez-vous à nous sur Slack: mtlpy.org/fr/slackin

AWS Summit Online
Tuesday 29 September 2020 @ 09:00
AWS Summit Online est un événement gratuit à la demande conçu pour rassembler la communauté de l’infonuagique et lui permettre de s’informer sur AWS. AWS Summit Online propose plus de 50 sessions qui couvrent des sujets variés tels que le choix de la bonne base de données, la modernisation de votre entrepôt de données et la transformation numérique à l'aide de l'IA.

($) JupyterCon 2020
Monday 05 October 2020 @ 08:00
5-9 October: Tutorials
12-16 October: Conference
17 October: Sprints

Microsoft Ignite
Join us for our digital event experience on September 22-24, 2020. Hear the latest product developments and how to put them into action with guidance from Microsoft experts and your worldwide community.