2014 was an interesting year, 2015 looks to be even richer. Last year I got to publish my High Performance Python book, help co-organise the rather successful PyDataLondon2014 conference, teach High Performance in public (slides online) and in private, keynote on The Real Unsolved Problems in Data Science and start my ModelInsight AI agency. That was a busy year (!) but deeply rewarding.
This year our consulting is branching out – we’ve already helped a new medical start-up define their data offering, I’m mentoring another data scientist (to avoid 10 years of my mistakes!) and we’re deploying new text mining IP for existing clients. We’ve got new private training this April for Machine Learning (scikit-learn) and High Performance Python (announce list) and Spark is on my radar.
Python’s role in Data Science has grown massively (I think we have 5 euro-area Python-Data-Science conferences this year) and I’m keen to continue building the London and European scenes.
I’m particularly interested in dirty data and ways we can efficiently clean it up (hence my Annotate.io lightning talk a week back). If you have problems with dirty data I’d love to chat and maybe I can share some solutions.
For PyDataLondon-the-conference we’re getting closer to fixing our date (late May/early June), join this announce list to hear when we have our key dates. In a few weeks we have our 10th monthly PyDataLondon meetup, you should join the group as I write up each event for those who can’t attend so you’ll always know what’s going on. To keep the meetup from degenerating into a shiny-suit-fest I’ve setup a separate data science jobs list, I curate it and only send relevant contract/permie job announces.
This year I hope to be at PyDataParis, PyConSweden, PyDataLondon, EuroSciPy and PyConUK – do come say hello if you’re around!
Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.
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