At PyData in Berlin I chaired a panel – one of the guests was Trent McConaghy and so I reached out to him, to hear his views about analytics. I liked his views on shipping it, and the challenges he’s run into in his own world. 1. What project have you worked on do you… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist: Trent McConaghy
Month: June 2015
Interview with a Data Scientist: Alejandro Correra Bahnsen
I recently caught up with Alejandro who co-organizes the Luxembourg Data Science Meetup. We’re friends and we regularly talk about Data Science. Alejandro is returning to Colombia soon when he obtains his PhD. We recently spoke at the same event in Berlin. I recommend his talk since I think he targeted bridging the ‘academic to… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist: Alejandro Correra Bahnsen
Interview with a Data Scientst: Keith Bawden
Keith Bawden worked with me at Amazon, but not directly. Despite the fact we only had interactions over internal chat and a few emails he was a great influence on my thinking about Software Development and how to use statistics to solve problems in Industry. He has over 10 years experience in the Tech industry including… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientst: Keith Bawden
On the Cultural divide between Data Scientists and Managers
My friend Chris recently quoted me from Twitter on his Blog. I don’t have much to add to this – other than I feel it is a fair article is correct, and it discusses my own challenges. Ian Ozsvald has a good keynote on this – from PyCon Sweden where he talks about the need to… Continue reading On the Cultural divide between Data Scientists and Managers
Interview with a Data Scientist: Andrew Clegg
As part of my regular Interview with a Data Scientist feature. I recently interviewed Andrew Clegg. Andrew is a really interesting and pragmatic Data Science professional and currently he’s doing some cool stuff at Etsy. You can visit his Twitter here and his most recent talk on his work at Etsy from Berlin Buzzwords. What project have… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist: Andrew Clegg
Links and retrospective from PyData Berlin
I attended PyData Berlin last weekend. It was a blast – well done to the organizers. Some interesting remarks and links on PyData conference in Berlin. Luigi was presented as a technological solution to the problem of data pipelines by Miguel Cabrera. I found this to be an interesting example of the usage of this… Continue reading Links and retrospective from PyData Berlin