Dr. Julia Silge, Engineering Manager at Posit, introduces the brand-new Positron IDE, perfect for exploratory data analysis and visualization. She also lays out her top picks for LLMs that boost coding efficiency and discusses when traditional NLP methods might be the smarter choice over LLMs. Plus, Julia highlights some must-know open-source libraries that make managing MLOps easier than ever. Tune in for insights that every data scientist, ML engineer, and developer will find useful.
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In this episode you will learn:
• Overview of Posit and Positron IDE [05:20]
• How the needs of a data scientist differ from those of a software developer [10:54]
• How to contribute to the open-source Positron [19:50]
• MLOps and Vetiver: Tools for deploying and maintaining ML models [37:01]
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Tidyverse approach [50:34]
• The role of AI and LLMs in data science education [1:24:18]
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