As August involves a detailed, a lot of our readers are heading back to highschool (be it at university, a boot camp, or online), while others are shaking off the last vestiges of slower summer schedules. What higher time to arrange for the subsequent chapter of your data science learning journey?

In case you’re just tuning in again to data- and ML-related topics, you’re in for a treat: a lot of our authors definitely did not decelerate up to now month, and the truth is were hard at work on a few of their strongest articles to this point. To kick off a brand new month (and bid a correct farewell to the previous one), we’ve collected our hottest articles from August so that you can browse, bookmark, and — we hope—sink your teeth into. Enjoy!

Our most-read posts

The wisdom of crowds won’t all the time be infallible, but you may’t go fallacious with any of this month’s best hits on TDS—out of the lots of of articles we’ve published, these were those that resonated most strongly with our (extremely) savvy readers.

Conversation-starters

We love articles that launch vigorous debates—or add an interesting angle to existing conversations. Listed below are three recent posts that excelled on that front.

Our latest cohort of recent authors

Every month, we’re thrilled to see a fresh group of authors join TDS, each sharing their very own unique voice, knowledge, and experience with our community. In case you’re on the lookout for recent writers to explore and follow, just browse the work of our latest additions, including Jonathan Apple, Jarom Hulet, Sergey Vilov, David Rubio, Sydney Nye, Rüdiger Buchkremer, PhD, Michal Szudejko, Wanming Huang, John Lenehan, François Porcher, Tingsong Ou, Le Nguyen, Suyang Li, Ida Johnsson, PhD, Michael Segner, Radmila M., Chen Margalit, Pratik Aher, Gabriel L. Sena, Stan Pugsley, Caroline Arnold, Jeff Braun, Gianpi Colonna, Jaroslaw Drapala, Ahmad Albarqawi, Mateusz Praski, Julie Zhang, Joseph George Lewis, Thao Vu, Stefan Berkner, Ryan Shrott, Mary M, Eric Zhù, Stefan Suwelack, Maham Haroon, Jeff Chou, Berkan Zorlubas, Mariano Kamp, Douglas Blank, PhD, Gamze Zorlubas, Fatih Demirci, Jerry Qu, and Daniel Frees.