Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficiency in Deep Learning

A 36% price cut to GPU instances, in addition to the potential new benefits offered by software and GPU updates, however, might be enough to tip the cost-efficiency scales back in favor of GPUs.

November 28, 2017 · 8 min

How to Make High Quality Data Visualizations for Websites With R and ggplot2

In general, it takes little additional effort to make something unique with ggplot2, and the effort is well worth it.

August 14, 2017 · 9 min

Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Deep Learning than Cloud GPUs

Using CPUs instead of GPUs for deep learning training in the cloud is cheaper because of the massive cost differential afforded by preemptible instances.

July 5, 2017 · 7 min

The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.

June 20, 2017 · 5 min

Advantages of Using R Notebooks For Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can’t.

June 6, 2017 · 8 min