šŸ’” Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI

🦾Plus: šŸ‘“ Meta’s $3.5B bet on smart glasses

Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

  • šŸ“ˆ How Data Scientists Add Value to Business

  • šŸ“„Documentation That Developers Actually Read

  • 🧠 Tech Philosophy and AI Opportunity

  • šŸ¤ Replit x Microsoft: Vibe Coding Goes Mainstream

  • šŸ“š Teachers' union launches $23M AI academy

  • šŸ¦ French Mistral ties with UAE?

  • šŸ’” AI Tutorial:How to build interactive 3D websites from images

  • šŸ¤– AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Coding agents are not a passing trend, they are an evolving part of the development landscape; it is becoming essential for developers to use them effectively to enhance both efficiency and quality. LLMs are not to be considered commodities. LLM choice can greatly influence the quality of work performed by the agents.

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Data science is a field that revolves around gaining insights from data, both structured and unstructured. A data scientist uses mathematical, statistical, and other scientific methods and computer algorithms to analyze big data and extract knowledge from it.

You know the type: walls of text, outdated examples, missing context, and the dreaded "it's self-explanatory" cop-out. If you're nodding along, you're not alone. Poor documentation is the silent productivity killer plaguing development teams worldwide.

While AI is hailed as the route to abundance, the most important financial outcomes have been about scarcity. One of these scarce resources is AI talent. As the work needed to be done is the same across the various companies bidding for talent, it makes sense that the team that the best researchers play for is the team that pays the most.

Microsoft and Replit announced a new partnership to bring the startup’s agentic coding capabilities to Azure enterprise customers. The collaboration is a significant step in breaking down traditional barriers to application development by enabling employees across all departments - not just engineering - to build and deploy secure, enterprise-grade software using natural language.

Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building. 

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Data Tools, Libraries

reactR (GitHub Repo)

The React ecosystem is rich with components that can enhance R web and Shina apps. reactR provides a set of convenience functions for using React in R.

Valkey 8.0 includes stability and performance improvements over the second release candidate and is fully compatible with Redis OSS 7.2.4 

Kubesafe (GitHub Repo)

Kubesafe allows developers to safely run commands across multiple Kubernetes contexts.

AI News:

Meta has bought a 3% stake in its smart glasses partner—the parent company behind Ray-Ban and Oakley, EssilorLuxottica—for around $3.5B. The companies have collaborated on smart glasses since 2019 (when it launched the first-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses), and Meta will reportedly increase its share to 5% to cement a long-term partnership.

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Plus, Mood gummies are USA-grown and tested by third-party labs to ensure they meet federal legal and health standards.

The American Federation of Teachers partnered with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to create a national AI training hub that will prepare 400,000 educators to integrate the technology into classrooms across the U.S. The academy will offer workshops, online courses, and professional development, with its flagship campus in NYC, and plans to scale nationally.

Moonvalley, a startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, just released Marey — a filmmaker-focused AI video model trained exclusively on licensed content that gives directors granular control over scenes.

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French AI start-up, Mistral (maker of the Le Chat chatbot), is reportedly in talks with several major investors—including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund—to raise up to $1B in equity funding. While these discussions are preliminary, and it’s not yet known what its valuation will be if it successfully secures the $1B, Mistral is Europe's biggest AI start-up and last year raised $1.14B, with a valuation of $6.8B.

According to a report by analytics firm Adobe, Amazon’s Summer Prime Day Week (which kicked off on Tuesday and will end on Friday) will trigger a 3,200% increase in AI-related visits this year. Adobe reported that 55% of people will likely use AI for research, 47% for product recommendations, 43% for finding deals, 35% for gift ideas, 35% for finding unique products, and 33% for creating shopping lists.

Whether you’re looking to change careers or just learn something new, Codecademy can help. With over 600 interactive courses, plus portfolio projects and industry certification prep, you'll get hands-on experience using in-demand tech skills. Big Data News Weekly readers can use code SKILLUP15 to save 15% on a year of Codecademy Pro.

AI Tutorial

🌐 How to build interactive 3D websites from images

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to turn any image idea into a functional 3D website using ChatGPT for image generation, Hunyuan 3D for model conversion, and AI coding tools for web development.

Step-by-step:

  1. Use ChatGPT to generate your image: ā€œCreate a 3D image model of a [object] with a white backgroundā€

  2. Convert to 3D model using Hunyuan 3D 2.1 on Hugging Face.

  3. Upload the GLB file to your AI coding tool and prompt: ā€œCreate a [website type] that rotates the 3D model on the X axis when the user scrolls downā€

  4. Refine with follow-up prompts: ā€œEnhance the UI and make it more modernā€

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šŸ”„Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. Capital Companion - Start analyzing US stocks in minutes with our AI trading assistant.

  2. ClipNow easily convert your favorite videos into captivating TikToks, Reels and Shorts with just one click.

  3. Repixify – An AI based text and content generation website that provides AI tools for creating compelling content

  4. BlogFox is an AI-powered blogging tool that simplifies the creation of high-quality, SEO-optimized content.

  5. ProJourney allows you to use Midjourney without having to go through Discord.

  6. Moemate is an AI Studio which lets anyone create and chat with AI characters

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