I was kindly asked by the PyData Amsterdam organizers to keynote the conference. As a passionate fan of ethical machine learning and the great research being done by data scientists and academics around the world -- I am very enthused to present the topic to the conference.

My slides are currently …

The saddest moment for me at conferences is when I'm in the middle of an interesting conversation with a bright person and I ask her when her talk is and she says, "Who me?"

The number of folks I speak with every year at conferences who have amazing stories to …

Over the new year holiday time I had a chance to get away from it all, and snuck up to Finland to sit in a lodge on the Gulf of Finland, sip coffee, take saunas and read. I brought along a few books, the only programming one being Brian W …

I'm really excited to announce a new Python video course with O'Reilly on data pipelines. If you are interested in learning some of the popular options available for workflow automation and management in Python, take a look!

In the course, I cover:

• Using Celery for simple automation
• Setting up Hadoop …

I gave a talk about Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and Dask at PyConCZ 2016. It was super fun and I had a great time at the conference. If you want to read my slides below, here they are! There will be videos available later, so I'll post the link / video …

PyConCZ 2016 was such a fun conference! First off, it was the first time I got to see Jackie Kazil since we started writing our O'Reilly book Data Wrangling with Python together, HOORAYYYY!

OMG PYTHONISTAS! @JackieKazil & I are together for the first time since we started the @OReillyMedia Data Wrangling …

I participated in a two-day PyDataBerlin Hackathon event in early-October and decided to build a scraper for European Parliament. This was after I found the Europarl parallel corpus a bit underwhelming as it is messy and not tagged for party, speakers or topic (this is understandable, as it is primarily …

I dunno about you, but I often find myself bored with NLP (natural language processing) datasets. Too often they are older, based around something that is not particularly interesting to me or something I've analyzed or used before.

For me, IRC has often been a source of community, fun, sometimes …

I gave a talk at PyCon UK 2016 on automating your data cleanup with Python. I want to again thank the organizers for having me and thank the folks who attended. If you have any questions or are interested in talking about data cleaning problems, feel free to reach out …

You may have read recently about machine learning's bias problem particularly in word embeddings and vectors. It's a massive problem. If you are using word embeddings to generate associative words, phrases or to do comparisons, you should be aware of the biases you are introducing into your work. In preparation …