How to Become a Data Scientist in 6 Months a Hacker’s Approach to Career Planning

I’ve been digging around for some good presentations, giving a listen to some videos from PyData London 2016. Out of the videos I watched, I chose this talk by Tetiana Ivanova. This is a good talk for those looking to get into working as a data scientist. Here’s a few notes I made while watching.... Continue reading →

Jonathan Ellis talks about Five Lessons in Distributed Databases

Notes on the talk… If it’s not SQL it’s not a database. Watch, you’ll get to hear why… ha! Then Jonathan covers the recent history (sort of recent, the last ~20ish years) of the industry and how we’ve gotten to this point in database technology. It takes 5+ years to build a database. Also the... Continue reading →

7 Tips for Creating Technical Content on The Open Source Show

I’m in a video with the rad Christina Warren! In this video we walk about 7 tips for creating technical content in a kind of rapid fire back and forth of ideas. Recording this was great, as the way we did it presented us with a chance to put these ideas together like this. Being... Continue reading →