GET THE BALL ROLLING
Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 1: Motivation
This series covers the process preparing for a tech talk—from conceiving the idea to the actual day of the presentation. Up first: why and how to pick a topic. - Overreacted

A MAN'S JOB
Gender and Jobs in Online Image Searches
A really cool example of using machine vision to spot gender bias in Google Image search results. - Pew Research Center

YAWN
lazydata: Scalable Data Dependencies for Python projects
This library might help out when you need data version control for your next machine learning project. - rstojnic

TIPPING POINT
Most Impactful AI Trends of 2018: the Rise of ML Engineering
Was 2018 an important inflection point for the machine learning industry? Checkout this roundup of key trends and the impact they may have on ML this year. - Emmanuel Ameisen

SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS?
What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them
“Far from being a lesser version of the other data science breeds, good analysts are a prerequisite for effectiveness in your data endeavors.” - Harvard Business Review