I’ve been working on software products for several years now. And while a lot of my work has been greenfield, I’ve struggled to articulate the different kinds of work that happens in product development. Des Traynor one of the founders of Intercom had a great talk about this. (Source: Video) Often people don’t understand the two… Continue reading The two kinds of work in Software Products
Category: Analyst
Interview with a Data Scientist (Hadley Wickham)
(Repost from 2015) I recently interviewed Hadley Wickham the creator of Ggplot2 and a famous R Stats person. He works for RStudio and his job is to work on Open Source software aimed at Data Geeks. Hadley is famous for his contributions to Data Science tooling and inspires a lot of other languages! I include some light edits. 1.… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist (Hadley Wickham)
3 reasons to learn Bayesian Statistics in the new year
What is Bayesian Statistics Bayesian Statistics (or Probabilistic Programming) take a more effective and deep approach to perform analysis of any given data and situation. A/B testing is one of the hottest topics on the internet nowadays. In this testing, you simply consider two different groups, A and B, to analyze the performance of both… Continue reading 3 reasons to learn Bayesian Statistics in the new year
Applications of Bayesian Statistics: Supply Chain
Bayesian Statistics and Supply Chain Supply Chain can be thought of as a set of procedures that are coordinated to combine manufacturers, suppliers, warehouses, and stores in order to ensure proper production and distribution of material of right quantities at the right location and in right time. This, in turn, ensures that the total supply… Continue reading Applications of Bayesian Statistics: Supply Chain
Coding is hard
Today after over a decade of programming, I was reminded that programming is hard. I was committing a fix to PyMC3 (but it could have been any project, and I definitely make those mistakes professionally), and Thomas was good enough to point out ‘break-point committed’. JD Long shared his own war stories. The lesson I… Continue reading Coding is hard
I’m an Analyst and the software engineers made fun of my code!
I’m seeing a very fuzzy line between where technical business analysts end & IT teams begin. Y’all know of good articles/books on managing responsibilities when coding analysts on the biz side interface with IT dev teams? Seems tricky. #rstats #pydata #python — JD Long (@CMastication) October 19, 2018 My friend JD Long, has been a… Continue reading I’m an Analyst and the software engineers made fun of my code!
What is a Message Broker for?
I’ve been working in tech for a few years now, and that’s included writing a lot of code. One thing I never got my head around was what is a message broker? I’ve definitely seen them in architecture meetings, and heard people speak of ‘RabbitMQ’ and ‘Redis’ but I don’t really know what they’re for.… Continue reading What is a Message Broker for?
Interview with a Data Scientist – Vicky Boykis
It gives me great pleasure to interview Vicki Boykis – we’ve chatted a lot on Twitter over the past few years and her blog/ side projects have been inspiring for my own. Vicki is a Data Scientist and Engineer who tweets awesome stuff. She’s well worth following. Her twitter bio – Born: Jewish in Russia. Raised:… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist – Vicky Boykis
Why Probabilistic Programming is the next big thing in Data Science
TLDR: This is an opinionated post, but based on recent trends. What is Probabilistic Programming? I recently wrote a course teaching this. Probabilistic Programming is a newish paradigm used in Quantitative Finance, Biology, Insurance and Sports Analytics – it allows you to build generative models to infer latent parameters and the uncertainty of those parameters. It’s been… Continue reading Why Probabilistic Programming is the next big thing in Data Science
Interview with a Data Scientist: Mick Cooney
I’m delighted to feature my friend Mick Cooney here as an interviewee. Mick has many years of experience in Finance and more recently in Insurance, he co-ran the Dublin R meetup which was very successful and helped foster a data science community in Dublin. More recently he’s been working over in London at an Actuarial… Continue reading Interview with a Data Scientist: Mick Cooney