This week continues to see discussions around GDPR, major updates for Tableau, MySQL, Bootstrap and Salesforce in tech news this week.
See why Hadoop is dying, learn about Mob programming, Hybrid apps, Progressive web apps, and more from this week’s insights. Build an ARCore app in Android, learn advanced Rust programming, see how data scientists test hypothesis, and more in this week’s tutorials.
Here’s what you may have missed in the last 7 days – Tech news, insights and tutorials…
Featured Interview
“Pandas is an effective tool to explore and analyze data”: An interview with Theodore Petrou
In this exciting interview, Ted Petrou, author of Pandas Cookbook, takes us through an insightful journey into pandas – Python’s premier library for exploratory data analysis and tells us why it is the go-to library for many data scientists to discover new insights from their data. Ted is a data scientist and the founder of Dunder Data, a professional educational company focusing on exploratory data analysis.
Tech news Bulletins
- Data science news bulletin – Monday 23 April
- Web Development news bulletin – Tuesday 24 April
- Cybersecurity news bulletin – Wednesday 25 April
- Programming news bulletin – Thursday 26 April
Data news in depth
- Microsoft Cloud Services get GDPR Enhancements
- Tableau 2018.1 brings new features to help organizations easily scale analytics [Editor’s Pick]
- MySQL 8.0 is generally available with added features
Development & programming news in depth
- Salesforce Spring 18 – New features to be excited about in this release!
- JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1 is readily available for download
- Get ready for Bootstrap v4.1; Web developers to strap up their boots
Cloud & networking news in depth
- Google’s kaniko – An open-source build tool for Docker Images in Kubernetes, without a root access
- AWS SAM (AWS Serverless Application Model) is now open source
- Everything you need to know about Jenkins X, the new cloud-native CI/CD solution on Kubernetes [Editor’s Pick]
Tutorials
Interested in becoming a data scientist? This week’s tutorials focus on getting you started in this field using some of the most popular tools like TensorFlow and R.
Interested in Web development? Learn to Build a real-time dashboard with Vue.js, master data bindings with Knockout.js and more this week.
Perhaps, you’re into mobile and game development. Now is a good time to know how to build an ARCore app on Android.
Data tutorials
- How to Debug an application using Qt Creator [Editor’s Pick]
- Setting up Logistic Regression model using TensorFlow
- How data scientists test hypotheses and probability [Editor’s Pick]
- Using R6 classes in R to retrieve live data for markets and wallets
Development & programming tutorials
Web development tutorials
- How to build a chatbot with Microsoft Bot framework
- How to deploy a Node.js application to the web using Heroku
- Building a real-time dashboard with Meteor and Vue.js
- Building a Web Service with Laravel 5
- Data bindings with Knockout.js [Editor’s Pick]
Game and Mobile development tutorials
- How to create non-player Characters (NPC) with Unity 2018
- Build a Virtual Reality Solar System in Unity for Google Cardboard
- Getting started with building an ARCore application for Android [Editor’s Pick]
Programming tutorials
Other Tutorials
- How to run Lambda functions on AWS Greengrass
- Creating and deploying an Amazon Redshift cluster
- How to run and configure an IoT Gateway
This week’s opinions, analysis, and insights
Learn all about MYSQL performance benchmarks, what is active learning, what are hybrid apps, what is mob programming and more in this week’s insights.
Data Insights
- Top 10 MySQL 8 performance benchmarking aspects to know [Editor’s Pick]
- Why is data science important?
- Why is Hadoop dying? [Editor’s Pick]
- Active Learning: An approach to training machine learning models efficiently
Development & Programming Insights
- Google ARCore is pushing immersive computing forward
- Hybrid Mobile apps: What you need to know
- 20 ways to describe programming in 5 words [Just for laughs]
- What is Mob Programming? [Editor’s Pick]
- 5 reasons why your next app should be a PWA (progressive web app) [Editor’s Pick]
Other Insights