Category: Summer of Data Science 2017

A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much...

I was asked to join the team running the National Transportation Data Challenge, not as a data scientist, but as a project manager to help...

... a more careful understanding of the data might suggest that Amazon is a lot more important than it may seem at first glance, and...

I found TensorFlow initially confusing but then quite comfortable. It's odd how after programming in a language like Python for a while, it becomes confusing...

A bottom-up study of the potential economic impact of climate change shows how a large-scale data analysis should be done...

I've been documenting my setups more carefully. Here's what I got for a minimal setup of a TensorFlow environment that works both for scripts and...

I left last week's PyData Meetup with more questions than answers. Questions like "why does that neural net I just wrote perform the way it...

There is little here that I could not learn on my own. But I find that it's useful to learn along with others, and the...

The basic idea is to set some goals, share them with anybody who is watching the #SoDS17 tag on twitter, then provide updates by twitter,...