This week on Packt Hub – 25 May 2018

Here is this week's newsletter showcasing a select set of news stories, interviews, analyses and tutorials along with special content curated from the web. If you like what you see, make sure to subscribe and tell others too.

Here’s what you may have missed in the last 7 days – Tech news, insights and tutorials…

Featured interview

“Tableau is the most powerful and secure end-to-end analytics platform” - Joshua Milligan

This week we interviewed Joshua Milligan, Tableau Zen Master and the best selling author of the book, Learning Tableau. In this insightful interview, Joshua explains why Tableau is the Google of data visualization. He explores what's possible in Tableau like Geospatial analysis and automating workflows, what the exciting new features such as Hyper, Tableau Prep mean for BI developers, among other topics.

Tech news

Conferences/Events in focus this week

What the PSF & Jetbrains 2017 Python Developer Survey reveals

Five developer centric sessions at IoT World 2018

F8 AR Announcements

What we learned at the ICRA 2018 conference for robotics & automation

Data news in depth

• Amazon is selling facial recognition technology to police
• PostgreSQL 11 Beta 1 is out!
• Google announces Cloud TPUs on the Cloud Machine Learning Engine (ML Engine)
• TensorFlow.js 0.11.1 releases!

Development & programming news in depth

• Microsoft introduces SharePoint Spaces, adds virtual reality support to SharePoint
• Qt 5.11 has arrived!
• Adobe is going to acquire Magento for $1.68 Billion
• Typescript 2.9 release candidate is here
• CRYENGINE 5.5 preview 3 goes live!

Cloud & networking news in depth

• Kubernetes Containerd 1.1 Integration is now generally available
• Introducing OpenStack Foundation’s Kata Containers 1.0

Other News

• What matters on an engineering resume? Hacker Rank report says skills, not certifications
• Partnership alliances of Kontakt.io and IOTA Foundation for IoT and Blockchain

Tutorials

Data tutorials

• How to use M functions within Microsoft Power BI for querying data

Development & programming tutorials

Development tutorials

• Testing Single Page Applications (SPAs) using Vue.js developer tools
• How to Scaffold a New module in Odoo 11
• Build powerful progressive web apps with Firebase
• How to integrate Firebase with NativeScript for cross-platform app development
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• Build an ARCore app with Unity from scratch
• Working with Unity Variables to script powerful Unity 2017 games
• How to use Bootstrap grid system for responsive website design?

Programming tutorials

• Documenting RESTful Java Web Services using Swagger
• Regular expressions in AWK programming: What, Why, and How

Other tutorials

• How to create and configure an Azure Virtual Machine
• Getting started with Digital forensics using Autopsy
• How to build an Arduino based ‘follow me’ drone

This week’s opinions, analysis, and insights

Data Insights

• Top 7 libraries for geospatial analysis
• Introducing Dask: The library that makes scalable analytics in Python easier
• Facebook’s Wit.ai: Why we need yet another chatbot development framework?
• Top 5 tools for reinforcement learning

Development & Programming Insights

• Is web development dying?
• Top 5 open source static site generators
• AI for game developers: 7 ways AI can take your game to the next level

Other Insights

• Abandoning Agile
• SDLC puts process at the center of software engineering
• ERP tool in focus: Odoo 11
• 12 common malware types you should know
• Anatomy of a Crypto Ransomware

What else happened in May?

Last Week on Packt Hub - 18 May 2018

That week on Packt Hub – 11 May 2018

That week on Packt Hub – 4 May 2018