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Lessons learned from the Executives at PyData session at PyDataLondon 2022

June 24, 2022

Lessons from the Executives at PyData session at PyDataLondon 2022 We ran our first post-pandemic in-person PyDataLondon conference a week back in central...

Aiming for target-rich environments improves your chance of success

June 9, 2022

PyDataLondon - talks aimed at leaders, our great schedule and volunteering Next week sees the return of our PyDataLondon conference after a 2 year Covid gap....

PyDataLondon returns and some thoughts on Higher Performance Python

May 27, 2022

Thoughts - PyDataLondon meetup and conference Next week we have our first PyDataLondon meetup in a couple of years! It’ll comprise a set of lightning talks...

Two lessons for you to avoid failed data science projects

May 11, 2022

Thoughts Thanks for the good wishes some of you have sent. We're all much better now - sleep deprivation is crap (and nasty infant illness is just awful),...

Memory use diagnosis, Ibis 3, "XGB for all"

April 27, 2022

Thoughts This will be a short issue, my infant has been very ill in recent weeks and I confess that sleep deprivation is catching up. I had some great...

Metrics used whilst “making $1M for my client”, saving power wastage through data, finding effective Covid masks

April 13, 2022

Thoughts - metrics used whilst “making $1M for my client” Below I talk on system profiling before trying to make things faster, Covid masks (maybe you have...

On “making $1M for a client” and speeding-up Dask

March 31, 2022

Thoughts - on “making $1M for a client” and speeding-up Dask Recently with one of my clients we’ve celebrated finding over $1M in recoverable overbilling and...

Learning to estimate, supporting open source creators, upcoming PyData conferences

March 16, 2022

Thoughts Given some of the big events happening in the world I’ve focused more of my time on “estimation”, I’ve made notes on this and the Metaculus site...

Automatically finding interesting data relationships, more thoughts on the Unschedule

March 4, 2022

Thoughts Below I talk on leading vs lagging indicators to track progress, the lux auto-interesting-relationship discovery tool and share Jesper’s thoughts on...

Wasting less time to get more done

February 18, 2022

Thoughts I finished another Successful Data Science Projects course last week, we had some very productive discussions about the whole early-stage through to...

How much do you get done in a day? Derisking anomaly detection projects and useful tools to improve your engineering

February 4, 2022

Did you know that Signal AI need a Senior Data Scientist and Aflorithmic need a Data Engineer and Software Engineer. Details for all of these and more are...

Higher quality data science code and derisking hard projects

January 21, 2022

Did you know that Netacea are hiring for a Head of DS + Data Engineer, Signal AI need a Senior Data Scientist and Aflorithmic need a Data Engineer and...

Part 2 of "Polars - Faster than Pandas" interview, Pandera for dataframe checks and "how to measure anything"

January 7, 2022

Did you know that Netacea are hiring for a Head of DS + Data Engineer, Signal AI need a Senior Data Scientist, Aflorithmic need a Data Engineer and Software...

Interview on "Faster than Pandas" Polars, "beginner mind" and binding remote teams together

December 22, 2021

Did you know that Netacea are hiring for a Head of DS + Data Engineer, Signal AI need a Senior Data Scientist, Aflorithmic need a Data Eng and 2iQresearch...

Dask's updated dashboards and dates for my next Success course in February

December 8, 2021

Did you know that Netacea are hiring for a Head of DSci + Data Engineer, Signal need a Head of DSci, Aflorithmic need a Data Eng and 2iQresearch are hiring...

This newsletter is now `NotANumber`

November 24, 2021

This newsletter is now NotANumber I’ve renamed my newsletter from “Ian’s Thoughts and Jobs List” to “NotANumber”. I’m building up this newsletter, recently...

Interview Part 2 with Kaggle Competition Expert, more on the State of Higher Performance Python

November 10, 2021

Thoughts Did you know that 2iQresearch are hiring for a Senior Dev and and a Quant Dev? See their ad and many more below. We had PyDataGlobal a week back, we...

Interview with Kaggle Expert Mani Sarkar, PyDataGlobal starts Thursday

October 27, 2021

Thoughts Did you know that Holiday Extras are hiring a Senior Data Engineer? See their ad and many more below. PyDataGlobal runs from tomorrow, the schedule...

Expert Briefings at PyDataGlobal, the GIL and DirtyCat

October 13, 2021

Expert Briefings at PyDataGlobal, the GIL and DirtyCat Did you know that Holiday Extras are hiring a Senior Data Engineer? See their ad and many more below....

`line_profiler` fixed and CI help required

September 30, 2021

line_profiler fixed and CI help required Did you now that Kindred are looking for a Lead Data Scientist along with quants and python developers? Details are...