Data Digest
Browse all 18 visual explainers from the guild, one data science concept at a time.
All explainers
2026
Bioinformatics: Decoding the Code of Life
How biology, computer science, and statistics work together to turn genomes into useful knowledge.
By Howard Mercado
2026
The Butterfly Effect
How tiny changes in data can create dramatically different outcomes across complex systems.
By Zo Pelagio and Gab Kalugdan
2026
The Future of Data Science
Emerging technologies are expanding data science while human judgment remains its essential guardrail.
By Uno Publico
2026
Sound, Visualized
Why spectrograms matter and how visual sound patterns support science, healthcare, and machine learning.
April 10, 2026
The Loudness War
What analysis of 4,500 tracks reveals about music loudness, dynamic range, and a long-running audio myth.
By Joseph Uriel Martin
October 13, 2025
Can We See Poverty from the Sky?
How satellite imagery and machine learning predict poverty across five African countries where surveys fall short.
By Siegfrid Cabuhat, caption by Bea Patricio
August 12, 2025
Simplex Algorithm for Optimizing Budget
How the Simplex method turns goals and constraints into the best possible plan, from coffee shop menus to financial planning.
By Yanika Tauro
March 7, 2025
Excel Tools for Data Preprocessing and Visualization
How Excel's built-in tools clean messy datasets and turn them into charts that tell a story.
By Yanika Tauro
February 28, 2025
Deep Learning for Bird Song Recognition
How spectrograms and convolutional neural networks turn bird calls into conservation insights.
By Ian Reginio and Victor Emmanuel Ruidera
February 14, 2025
Delulu si Mare: LLM Hallucinations and ROUGE
A Valentine's Day look at why large language models hallucinate and how ROUGE, BLEU, and other metrics measure it.
By Jerome Espina
January 24, 2025
How Is AI Changing the Economic Landscape?
How neural networks and generative AI are reshaping economic research and interest rate forecasting.
By John Donel Gaffud
January 17, 2025
An Ultimate Guide to YOLOv11 Object Detection
A hands-on walkthrough of training a YOLOv11 object detector, from dataset annotation on Roboflow to evaluation on Google Colab.
By Keith Tidon, Research and Development Team, Wizy.io
January 4, 2025
Occam's Razor: Simplify Life
A relaxed introduction to choosing the simplest explanation or model that fits the evidence.
By Eric Aggarao and Ari Casiño
December 27, 2024
Computer Vision 101
How machines classify, detect, and segment objects in images, and why those skills matter.
By Rey Isaac Jr.
December 13, 2024
Build a Text Classifier with Naive Bayes
A visual walkthrough of gathering, preprocessing, training, and evaluating text for sentiment classification.
By RD Dolor
December 6, 2024
Prompt Like a Pro
Practical strategies for clearer prompts and more useful responses from ChatGPT and other language models.
By Norbert John Ibera
November 29, 2024
Data Science Is Not Just Coding
Drew Conway's Data Science Venn Diagram shows why coding is only one part of the discipline.
April 4, 2024
Reconstructing a Black Hole Image with AI
How the PRIMO machine-learning method sharpens the Event Horizon Telescope's image of the M87 black hole.