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 …

Question: How does it feel to be a woman in tech?

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see also: OG PyLadies Interview

"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 …

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 …

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.

Next Course: New York City, July 13-14

Tickets are available on Eventbrite with a special Early Bird and Student …

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 …