Promo for my SCaLE 16x talk
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...
National Transportation Data Challenge @ JupyterCon
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...
Retail: A tale of two charts
... a more careful understanding of the data might suggest that Amazon is a lot more important than it may seem at first glance, and...
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree — Part 3
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...
Fantastic Use of Data
A bottom-up study of the potential economic impact of climate change shows how a large-scale data analysis should be done...
My minimal TensorFlow / CUDA environment setup
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...
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – Part II
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...
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – Part I
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...
Welcome to my Summer of Data Science 2017
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,...
Hello world!
Yes, it's the obligatory WordPress "hello world" post! Welcome to my blog....