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Alessandra Alpino shows you step by step how to build and deploy a chat powered with LLM  —  Gemini  —  in Streamlit and monitor the API usage on Google Cloud Console.
Step-by-Step Guide to Build and Deploy an LLM-Powered Chat with Memory in Streamlit | Towards Data Science
And monitor your API usage on Google Cloud Console
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
ICYMI: Kasper Groes Albin Ludvigsen's thorough piece on Google’s disclosure of the environmental impact of their Gemini models.
Is Google’s Reveal of Gemini’s Impact Progress or Greenwashing? | Towards Data Science
On the surface, Google's numbers sound reassuringly small, but the more closely you look, the more complicated the story becomes.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
TDS is seeking authors to contribute cutting-edge knowledge on MLOps, RAG, and Agentic AI. Share your practical tutorials and deep dives with a global audience.

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November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A hands-on guide to comparing multiple RAG strategies — Keyword, FAISS, and Chroma — by Alle Sravani.
Multi-Agent SQL Assistant, Part 2: Building a RAG Manager | Towards Data Science
A hands-on guide to comparing multiple RAG strategies — Keyword, FAISS, and Chroma
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November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Struggling with the basic components of Reinforcement Learning? Avishek Biswas explains the distinct roles of the agent, the environment, and the policy, and how they work together.
The Reinforcement Learning Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Questions | Towards Data Science
Simplifying all the concepts required to master reinforcement learning
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November 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you’re drowning in massive datasets and are looking for quick insights without too much manual grind, you’ve come to the right place. Read Dario Radečić's full article free now.
LLMs + Pandas: How I Use Generative AI to Generate Pandas DataFrame Summaries | Towards Data Science
Local Large Language Models can convert massive DataFrames to presentable Markdown reports — here's how.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Welcome Sam Arrington to the TDS family. 👋 Sam has launched a fantastic, statistics-focused series on power analysis in the context of marketing.

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Power Analysis in Marketing: A Hands-On Introduction | Towards Data Science
Part 1: What is statistical power and how do we compute it?
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November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
How can an algorithm make smart choices when it starts out knowing nothing and can only learn through trial and error?

@sarah-lea.bsky.social explores why the decision between trying something new (exploration) and sticking to what works (exploitation) is trickier than it seems.
Simple Guide to Multi-Armed Bandits: A Key Concept Before Reinforcement Learning | Towards Data Science
How AI learns to make better decisions and why you should care about exploration vs. exploitation
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November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Learn the fundamentals of LLM monitoring and observability, from tracing to evaluation and setting up a dashboard using Langfuse.

By Ahmad Talal Riaz
LLM Monitoring and Observability: Hands-on with Langfuse | Towards Data Science
Learn the fundamentals of LLM monitoring and observability, from tracing to evaluation and setting up a dashboard using Langfuse
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November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Eivind Kjosbakken breaks down how vision language models can transform long-document understanding, letting models process content directly instead of relying on OCR.
How to Apply Vision Language Models to Long Documents | Towards Data Science
Learn how to apply powerful VLMs for long context document understanding tasks
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November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What can we learn from Anthropic’s analysis of millions of Claude chats? Jonte Dancker analyzes the impact of GenAI and its implications for data scientists.
The Impact of GenAI and Its Implications for Data Scientists | Towards Data Science
What we can learn from Anthropic’s analysis of millions of Claude.ai chats
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November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
🎶 Learn to build an AI-powered song explainer with Python and OpenAI. Piero Paialunga covers the entire process, from system design to building an interactive web app with Streamlit.
Music, Lyrics, and Agentic AI: Building a Smart Song Explainer using Python and OpenAI | Towards Data Science
This is how to build an AI-powered Song Explainer using Python and OpenAI
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November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you've learned something valuable or had a major technical breakthrough, share it with the TDS community. Become a paid contributor and submit your work!

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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
To help engineers choose the right model for their robotics projects, Mauro Di Pietro's article provides a practical comparison of RL algorithms. Read the full article free now.
Robotics with Python: Q-Learning vs Actor-Critic vs Evolutionary Algorithms | Towards Data Science
Build a Custom 3D Environment for your RL Robot
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November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Use data analytics to simulate a circular rental model for fashion retail and understand store operations and logistics challenges.

Explore Samir Saci's full article free now.
Simulate the Challenges of a Circular Economy for Fashion Retail | Towards Data Science
Use data analytics to simulate a circular rental model for fashion retail and understand store operations and logistics challenges.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Learn about the limitations of AI in analytics through the example of bearing vibration data analysis.

By Illia Smoliienko
Why AI Still Can’t Replace Analysts: A Predictive Maintenance Example | Towards Data Science
Learn about the limitations of AI in analytics through the example of bearing vibration data analysis
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November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Maria Mouschoutzi dives into Mean Reciprocal Rank and Average Precision, explaining how these order-aware metrics help you truly measure retrieval quality in RAG pipelines.
How to Evaluate Retrieval Quality in RAG Pipelines (part 2): Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) and Average Precision (AP) | Towards Data Science
Evaluating the retrieval quality of your RAG pipeline with binary, order-aware measures
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What can a coach’s warm-up trial teach us about running better experiments? Pol Marin uses a fictional football example to illustrate randomness and A/B tests.
Why Your A/B Test Winner Might Just Be Random Noise | Towards Data Science
What a coach’s warm-up trial can teach us about running better experiments
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November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Quasi geo-lift lets you prove whether a campaign truly moves the needle without user-level tracking or big randomized tests. Dive into the full article by Tomas Jancovic now.
Why Are Marketers Turning To Quasi Geo-Lift Experiments? (And How to Plan Them) | Towards Data Science
Are “quasi” geo-lift experiments the missing piece for your marketing science function?
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November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
ICYMI: How transforming raw user metrics into personalized assessments can lead to more effective business decisions, by Vladimir Zhyvov.
Building Effective Metrics to Describe Users | Towards Data Science
How can numerical user metrics be transformed into a personalized assessment of whether this behavior is typical or unusual for the user?
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November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Introducing Mohannad Elhamod! 👋 Our new author is challenging a fundamental assumption in ML: that more data always leads to better model performance. His debut article explores the surprising nuances of data quantity vs. quality.

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Does More Data Always Yield Better Performance? | Towards Data Science
Exploring and challenging the conventional wisdom of “more data → better performance” by experimenting with the interactions between sample size, attribute set, and model complexity.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Partha Sarkar explores how to take RAG beyond text. Build multimodal systems that can retrieve and respond with images, tables, and figures directly from source documents.
Building a Multimodal RAG That Responds with Text, Images, and Tables from Sources | Towards Data Science
Why do few chatbots return figures from source documents in their responses?
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Improve your interactions with AI by understanding its design. Udayan Kanade's debut TDS article teaches you why it's better to start a new chat than to argue with an LLM that's making errors.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms | Towards Data Science
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
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November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Read Jimin Kang's walkthrough of how to integrate metadata changes in DataHub into Jira workflows using the DataHub Actions Framework.
Integrating DataHub into Jira: A Practical Guide Using DataHub Actions | Towards Data Science
A walkthrough of how to integrate metadata changes in DataHub into Jira workflows using the DataHub Actions Framework
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November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What if you could give your bot memory? 🤖

Dive into Nicole Ren and Wei Cheng Ng's article exploring the GenAI innovations that power Virtual Intelligent Chat Assistant (VICA).
From Amnesia to Awareness: Giving Retrieval-Only Chatbots Memory | Towards Data Science
Achieve natural multi-turn conversations without sacrificing content control.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM