Weekend long read suggestions 2019/45

Elixir

• How to use data spanning multiple data sources in Elixir

  Excellent write up about solving non-trivial data fetching problem with Ecto’s preload functions.

• Functional lessons learnt

  Couple of hints from Javier’s journey to functional programming.

Machine Learning

• The Data School Library

  Set of free and open books around data. Especially interesting as material to share with people starting their data carrier.

• Loan risk analysis

  Nice series of articles describing potential ML pipeline for assessing loan risk scoring. It is written by Databricks for their platform, but quite applicable without it as well.

  • Loan Risk Analysis with XGBoost and Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning
  • Using AutoML Toolkit to Automate Loan Default Predictions
  • Using AutoML Toolkit’s FamilyRunner Pipeline APIs to Simplify and Automate Loan Default Predictions