🚀 August on Sr Data Science Lead: What’s coming up.

August comes packed with a few relevant Data Science topics!

1. The data visualisation series continues with blog number 8 of the course. This time, the focus is on how to balance dominant bar chart categories

2. Second, I continue my deep dives using Claude explaining that Sonnet 5 is only good at one thing (beating Sonnet 4.6).

3. Finally, I explore Google TabFM: Why tabular foundation models are finally worth trying, where they challenge XGBoost, and why boosted trees are not dead yet.

Let us get straight to it 👇

Why default bars fail when one value explodes — and the only fix that actually works.

An article to dissect how much can you trust Anthropic’s press release vs the community backlash.

Why tabular foundation models are finally worth trying, where they challenge XGBoost, and why boosted trees are not dead yet.

And if there is a topic you would like to see covered in future community threads or blog posts, tell me. I read everything.

See you in the next post. 👋