This week on Packt Hub – 27 April 2018

This week continues to see discussions around GDPR, major updates for Tableau, MySQL, Bootstrap and Salesforce in tech news this week.

See why Hadoop is dying, learn about Mob programming, Hybrid apps, Progressive web apps, and more from this week’s insights. Build an ARCore app in Android, learn advanced Rust programming, see how data scientists test hypothesis, and more in this week’s tutorials.

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

Featured Interview

“Pandas is an effective tool to explore and analyze data”: An interview with Theodore Petrou

In this exciting interview, Ted Petrou, author of Pandas Cookbook, takes us through an insightful journey into pandas – Python’s premier library for exploratory data analysis and tells us why it is the go-to library for many data scientists to discover new insights from their data. Ted is a data scientist and the founder of Dunder Data, a professional educational company focusing on exploratory data analysis.

Tech news Bulletins

Data science news bulletin – Monday 23 April

Web Development news bulletin – Tuesday 24 April

Cybersecurity news bulletin – Wednesday 25 April

Programming news bulletin – Thursday 26 April

Tutorials

Interested in becoming a data scientist? This week’s tutorials focus on getting you started in this field using some of the most popular tools like TensorFlow and R.

Interested in Web development? Learn to Build a real-time dashboard with Vue.js, master data bindings with Knockout.js and more this week.

Perhaps, you’re into mobile and game development. Now is a good time to know how to build an ARCore app on Android.

Data tutorials

How to Debug an application using Qt Creator [Editor’s Pick]

Setting up Logistic Regression model using TensorFlow

How data scientists test hypotheses and probability [Editor’s Pick]

Using R6 classes in R to retrieve live data for markets and wallets

Development & programming tutorials

Web development tutorials

How to build a chatbot with Microsoft Bot framework

How to deploy a Node.js application to the web using Heroku

Building a real-time dashboard with Meteor and Vue.js

Building a Web Service with Laravel 5

Data bindings with Knockout.js [Editor’s Pick]

Game and Mobile development tutorials

How to create non-player Characters (NPC) with Unity 2018

Build a Virtual Reality Solar System in Unity for Google Cardboard

Getting started with building an ARCore application for Android [Editor's Pick]

Programming tutorials

How to dockerize an ASP.NET Core application

Perform Advanced Programming with Rust [Editor’s Pick]

This week’s opinions, analysis, and insights

Learn all about MYSQL performance benchmarks, what is active learning, what are hybrid apps, what is mob programming and more in this week’s insights.