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blazing-fast data science on GPUs
graph analytics with cuGraph – ego network
by Georg Heiler
In an ever more connected world the size of datasets for various use cases is increasing more and more. For traditional graph tools using the CPU this fact can make your analyses painfully slow.…
Read moreVDSG Suspends Events
Dear All, as you may have heard, in efforts to control the spread of the Corona Virus, the Austrian government has prohibited indoor events of more than 100 people, and is discouraging unnecessary social gatherings. In order to protect our community, the VDSG has decided to follow the spirit of the law, and suspend its activities until the government ban is lifted.…
Read moreLiability of ML Systems & Data Literacy: Revisited
Knowledgefeed vol. 30: How to get into Kaggle? – Revisited
Pandas for Movement Data Analysis & NLP for Automated Document Reading – Revisited
Reproducible geospatial visualization in kepler.gl
Jinja templates in jupyter for kepler.gl
by Georg Heiler
Effortless and great looking visualizations can be achieved using https://kepler.gl/. However, kepler by itself is tedious to use as updating the data files like you might have done with QGIS or ArcGIS does not work on the website.…
Read moreGeospatial binning with hexagons on spark
H3 hexagons for equidistant bins on spark.
By Georg Heiler
Discrete global grid systems recently got quite some attention in the GIS community when Uber released H3 https://eng.uber.com/h3/…
Read moreDS Salon Vol. 3: Social Media – Monitoring Their Impact on Civil Society – revisited
On October 21 the Data4Good program lead by VDSG held it’s third DS Salon. The agenda and additional details can be found on our meetup page of the event. The videos are now on our youtube channel.
Knowledgefeed vol. 29: revisited
Jelena’s and Marcin’s talks are now on our youtube channel.
Slides are available here.
You can find slides for this talk here.…
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