Pelican Readtime Plugin
How to use pelican readtime plugin in Pelican static site generator
more ...My work from home setup
Documenting my work-from-home environment setup, including physical office, shell, text editor, and more.
more ...The New Business of AI (and How It's Different From Traditional Software) - a16z
This is my personal highlights from reading "The New Business of AI (and How It's Different From Traditional Software)", which was published on Andreessen Horowitz blog. This article is superbly written, and is a great resource for machine learning professionals evaluating their next job opportunities.
more ...Lessons learned from building a community of Python users among Capital One's analysts
Note: the content of this blog article came mostly from my PyCon 2019 talk.
A lot has been written about Capital One's commitment to go all-in on the cloud and open source software for many of our core business operations, processes, and machine learning models. To support this transformation, we …
more ...Tackling climate change with ML (NeurIPS Workshop)
I attended the NeurIPS 2019 Workshop - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning remotely on 2019-12-14. Below are the notes I took from the talks that I attended (which is just a small subset).
Note: Many of the discussions on this workshop is a follow-up to the paper of the same …
more ...My PyCon 2019 talk
I and two Capital One colleagues (Ariel M'ndange-Pfupfu and Marina Sergeeva) gave a talk at PyCon 2019 titled Lessons learned from building a community of Python users among thousands of analysts.
This talk highlighted our multi-pronged approaches to overcome organizational inertia to build a community of Python users, provide Python …
more ...Python job scheduler
Question
What's the most lightweight job scheduler for Python that can be used by a data scientist?
Answer
cron should work if you are looking to just run some python script at a scheduled time.
If you are doing something more complex in your job scheduler, such as chained tasks …
JHU data science instructors
Short version for index and feeds
more ...Do you need a data science degree for data science jobs?
Question
Do employers looking for a data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer care if you obtain a new degree in a subject like data science that includes machine learning, etc.?
Answer
Having interviewed many data scientist candidates at Capital One, I can say that we care more about "whether …
SAS or Minitab?
Question
As an aspiring data scientist, which statistical environment/package should I learn first: SAS or Minitab?
Answer
Is "neither" an answer? I’d argue that Python or R should be your first tool to learn as an aspiring data scientist.
SAS is a proprietary software that can be expensive …