All posts of Ian

Annotate.io self-learning text cleaner demo online

A few weeks I posted some notes on a self-learning text cleaning system, to be used by data scientists who didn’t want to invest time cleaning their data by hand. I have a first demo online over at annotate.io (the demo code is here in github). The intuition behind this is that we currently divert […]
10 years ago

Data Science Jobs UK (ModelInsight) – Python Jobs Email List

I’ve had people asking me about how they can find data scientists in London and through our PyDataLondon meetup we’ve had members announcing jobs. There’s no central location for data science jobs so I’ve put together a new list (administered through my ModelInsight agency). Sign-up to the list here: Data Science Jobs UK (ModelInsight) Aimed […]
10 years ago

A first approach to automatic text data cleaning

In October I gave the opening keynote at PyConIreland on The Real Unsolved Problems in Data Science. One of the topics I covered was poor quality data, by some estimates data cleaning occupies 50-80% of a data scientist’s time. Personally I’ve just spent the better part of last year figuring out ways to convert poorly-represented […]
10 years ago

We’re running more Data Science Training in 2015 Q1 in London

A couple of weeks ago Bart and I ran two very successful training courses in London through my ModelInsight, one introduced data science using pandas and numpy to build a recommender engine, the second taught a two-day course on High Performance Python (and yes, that was somewhat based on my book with a lot of […]
10 years ago

My Keynote at PyConIreland 2014 – “The Real Unsolved Problems in Data Science”

I’ve just given the opening keynote here at PyConIreland 2014 – many thanks to the organisers for letting me get on stage. This is based on 15 years experience running my own consultancies in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. (Small note  – with the pic below James mis-tweeted ‘sexist’ instead of ‘sexiest’ (from my opening slide) […]
10 years ago

Fourth PyDataLondon Meetup

We’ve just run our 4th PyDataLondon meetup (@PyDataLondon). Having over 500 members is superb for just 4 months growth, woot 🙂 Many thanks to @GoPivotalEMEA for hosting us. We had 3 speakers and 1 lightning talk. Here are my slides on “The High Performance Python Landscape”: I’m still collecting data for my two surveys (to […]
10 years ago

Slides for High Performance Python tutorial at EuroSciPy2014 + Book signing!

Yesterday I taught an excerpt of my 2 day High Performance Python tutorial as a 1.5 hour hands-on lesson at EuroSciPy 2014 in Cambridge with 70 students: We covered profiling (down to line-by-line CPU & memory usage), Cython (pure-py and OpenMP with numpy), Pythran, PyPy and Numba. This is an abridged set of slides from […]
10 years ago

High Performance Python Training at EuroSciPy this afternoon

I’m training on High Performance Python this afternoon at EuroSciPy, my github source is here (as a shortlink: http://bit.ly/euroscipy2014hpc). There are prerequisites for the course. This training is actually a tiny part of what I’ll teach on my 2 day High Performance Python course in London in October (along with a Data Science course). If […]
10 years ago

Why are technical companies not using data science?

Here’s a quick question. How come more technical companies aren’t making use of data science? By “technical” I mean any company with data and the smarts to spot that it has value, by “data science” I mean any technical means to exploit this data for financial gain (e.g. visualisation to guide decisions, machine learning, prediction). […]
10 years ago