#471: Learning and teaching Pandas

I'm sure you're familiar with data science. But what about data engineering? Are these the same or how are they related?

4 Feb 20211h 4min

Have you been learning Django and now want to get your site online? Not sure the best way to host it or the trade offs between the various options? Maybe you want to make sure your Django site is secure. On this episode, I'm joined by two Django experts Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson to talk about deploying and running Django in production along with recent updates in Django 3.2 and beyond.

28 Jan 20211h 8min

You've heard that software developers and startups go hand-in-hand. But what about data scientists? Of course they! But how do you turn your data science skill set into a data science _business_ skill set? What are some of the areas ripe for launching such a business into?

22 Jan 20211h 6min

In this episode, we'll be discussing two powerful tools for data reporting and exploration: Datasette and Dogsheep. Datasette helps people take data of any shape or size, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API. Dogsheep is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette. Imagine a unified search engine for everything personal in your life such as twitter, photos, google docs, todoist, goodreads, and more, all in once place and outside of cloud companies. On this episode we talk with Simon Willison who created both of these projects. He's also one of the co-creators of Django and we'll discuss some early Django history!

17 Jan 20211h 1min

Are you building or running an internal machine learning team? How about looking for a new ML position? On this episode, I talk with Chip Huyen from Snorkel AI about building ML teams, finding ML positions, and teach ML at Stanford.

11 Jan 202156min

2020 will be one for the history books, won't it? I've put together a great group to look back on 2020 - from the Python perspective.

28 Dec 20201h 10min

Quick: Name the 3 most advanced engineering organizations you can think of? Maybe an aerospace company such as SpaceX or Boeing come to mind. Maybe you thought of CERN and the LHC. But in terms of bespoke engineering capabilities, you should certainly put the F1 racing teams on your list.

23 Dec 20201h 5min

Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Often we think of maps, but maps are static. GIS gets interesting when you realize that we're studying and visualizing data flowing through these locations and communities.

18 Dec 202057min