Google leads our day with a post on Google Cloud Platform about the release of the consumer surveys API. It is an interesting little feature that could help a lot of companies. KD Nuggets gives us a few excellent posts as well. First, they give us 12 inspiring women in data science. Obviously, there are probably some terrible omissions, but it is still a good list. Another good post is about how to grow your own data scientists. This will be important for a lot of people who are not able to hire new employees.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Google Consumer Surveys API lets you add a survey to any mobile or web app | Google Cloud Platform
Startups, Career and Process
- Give yourself permission to have work-life balance | Scott Hanselman
- Gathering the Confidence to Leave Your Job | DaedTech
- Improving your skills as a 9 to 5 programmer | Code Without Rules
Design and Development
- Determining the Active HotSpot Garbage Collector | Inspired by Actual Events
- Skill Development in Exploratory Testing | DZone Agile
- Type Specialization in Scala | DZone Java
- Testing and Dependency Injection With Model View Presenter on Android | envatotuts+
- Triassic Park: The Swift Evolution | Erica Sadun
- Introducing Tera, a template engine in Rust | We Are Wizards
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- How to Grow Your Own Data Scientists | KD Nuggets
- Association Rules and the Apriori Algorithm: A Tutorial | KD Nuggets
- Mathematicians mapped out every “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character | Quartz
- What Developers Actually Need to Know About Machine Learning | KD Nuggets
- K-Nearest Neighbors for Machine Learning | Machine Learning Mastery
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Master-less Distributed Queue with Postgres and PG Paxos | CitusData
- 12 Inspiring Women In Data Science, Big Data | KD Nuggets
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- URL shorteners aren’t always as safe as they look | The Next Web
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – April 14, 2016 (#2230) | Morning Dew
- Dew Drop – April 15, 2016 (#2231) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1671 | A Fresh Cup
- Web Development Reading List #133: Workflow Tools And The Aesthetics Of Invisible Code | Smashing Magazine
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