Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Book review
The Pitfalls of Deep Learning
We Are Developers
We Are Developers is the world’s largest conference for software development. It’s a great opportunity for software engineers to connect with tech companies and learn about interesting advances in technology. This year, it was supposed to take place in Berlin, but due to COVID-19, it was moved online for a...
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Diversity in IT Jobs
We Are Developers
We Are Developers is the world’s largest conference for software development. It’s a great opportunity for software engineers to connect with tech companies and learn about interesting advances in technology. This year, it was supposed to take place in Berlin, but due to COVID-19, it was moved online for a Live Week...
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10 data science books to read during lockdown
Books
Der Stand der Bibliotheken in Deutschland
Datenanalyse
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2019
Data analysis
As the year is almost over, it’s time to review my one and only resolution that I’ve been sticking to for the past four years: the Goodreads Reading Challenge. For 2019 I set quite a reasonable goal of reading 24 books, an average of two per month.
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Art of Akume @ Crush XV
Exhibition
This weekend, 29th to 30th of March, Crush XV hosted the exhibition of my favorite artist: Akume. He exhibited four of his sculptures: The dull flame of desire, Stabat mater, Rex tremendae, and Twisted muse.
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Web-scraping IMDb with R
Tutorial
Web scraping is a method of automatically gathering data from websites in a structured manner and storing it into a local database or spreadsheet. Why would you do this? Because you’re lazy. Or because it’s really impossible to copy-paste all the data you need from the website. Some popular use-cases of...
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Analysing my reading habits from Goodreads data
Data visualisation
Goodreads is an amazing platform for tracking and organizing your reading, discovering new books, and sharing reviews or recommandations with friends. I downloaded my library (from My Books > Tools > Import and Export > Export Library), which included the book titles, authors’ names, publishing year, number of pages, the...
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