Archive - Data 'n' Coffee

The Scandal at Kaggle

As I write these words, I marvel at my silver medal from the 2024 Automated Essay Scoring competition on Kaggle.

Jul 15, 2024 •

Serhii Sokolenko

April 2024

Compound AI Systems: Building a GitHub bot with Llama 3 and dltHub

TL;DR: We built a bot that suggests a meaningful response to an ongoing conversation thread on GitHub.

Apr 23, 2024 •

Serhii Sokolenko

June 2023

A DuckDB moment for application servers?

Apple announced their new high-end Mac Pro desktop with 24 CPU cores, up to 76 GPU cores, 192 GB memory and 800GB/s of system memory bandwidth (for…

Jun 6, 2023 •

Serhii Sokolenko

April 2023

Time Value of Data: The Summit of Now and the Peak of Soon After

Last week I had the chance to visit a major global fashion retailer and give an industry talk on Real-time AI. This company was hosting Tech Days and…

Apr 2, 2023 •

Serhii Sokolenko

November 2022

Graphext, data insights for non-data scientists

I am playing with Graphext – it’s like Trifacta, but with more powerful data science functionality.

Nov 28, 2022 •

Serhii Sokolenko

May 2018

Showing constituent parse trees in the browser

Update: Added the Stanford NLP link for constituent parse trees in text form

May 21, 2018 •

Serhii Sokolenko

Predicting user engagement with news on Reddit using Kaggle or Colab

About a month ago I wrote a 3-part blog series (parts 1, 2, and 3) on predicting user engagement with news in Reddit communities (subreddits).

May 8, 2018 •

Serhii Sokolenko

March 2018

How to programmatically monitor your Cloud Dataflow jobs

Ever wanted to define alerts and monitor the status of your Cloud Dataflow jobs programmatically instead of checking some UI every 30 minutes?

Mar 23, 2018 •

Serhii Sokolenko

Calculating per-job Cloud Dataflow costs - now possible with job labels

Ever wanted to track your resource usage and costs by specific Cloud Dataflow jobs? Cloud Dataflow recently started labeling billing records with Job…

Mar 1, 2018 •

Serhii Sokolenko

February 2018

Building dictionaries for Word Encodings using BigQuery SQL

I am working on the Reddit Community Engagement analysis, and one of my data sources is the GDELT BigQuery dataset. I love the richness of themes…

Feb 7, 2018 •

Serhii Sokolenko

December 2017

Predicting social engagement for the world’s news with TensorFlow and Cloud Dataflow: Part 1

What happens if you take a huge cross-section of the world’s news (The GDELT Project), mix it with the biggest online discussion website, and try to…

Dec 15, 2017 •

Serhii Sokolenko

September 2017

Million Dollar Idea: Order Tracking at Starbucks

Uber lessened the anxiety of cab callers by providing time estimates and position of cars on the map.

Sep 2, 2017 •

Serhii Sokolenko

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