Posted on Fr 16 September 2016 in research
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 …
Posted on Fr 16 September 2016 in life
Posted on Do 21 Juli 2016 in conferences
"I had a great time talking about Sentiment Analysis and Natural Language processing at EuroPython 2016. Here are my slides for your review, feel free to reach out on Twitter or email if you'd like to chat further about NLP, machine learning and sentiment. I look forward to starting more …
Posted on Di 29 März 2016 in hacking
Like many people, I enjoy travel. With family and friends all across the United States and a home base in Berlin, it's fairly easy to find a reason to travel -- either globally or within the EU. That said, what I find more difficult is to determine what's the best way …
Posted on Mo 29 Februar 2016 in trainings
I'll be in New York on July 13th and 14th, teaching how to "big data" with Python. We'll cover Pandas, Hadoop, PySpark and more on automation, acquisition and managing your data.
Tickets are available on Eventbrite with a special Early Bird and Student …
Posted on So 01 November 2015 in books
Just a quick note that my book: Data Wrangling with Python is available for prepurchase on Amazon as well as in early release on O'Reilly's web site.
Pick up a copy for less than full amount now. I'll be posting some examples of problems we work through in the book …
Posted on Do 23 Juli 2015 in conferences