dasboth
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Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Textual apps powered by sqlite running on a phone sounds like a superpower for filling your phone with useful tools, thanks for sharing! Does it access a local sqlite file or are you hosting that somewhere? Either way, this is really neat.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Python Challenge sounds similar but I don't know if there was a rock paper scissors component.
Comment · 4 years ago
SEEKING WORK | UK | Remote preferred | Data scientist | Instructor/trainer
I'm a data scientist and educator with a background in software and web development. Having worked a variety of technical roles, I've realised my two passions are: investigating the value contained in data by rapid prototyping (building proofs-of-concept to iterate ideas), and teaching people the value of having some level of technical skill. In the last couple of years I've been developing and delivering bespoke training programmes in Python and data analysis for enterprise clients (anything from half-day sessions, to weekly bootcamps all the way to 10 week part-time courses).
I'm looking for either a short-term contract (6 months max.) or a longer-term flexible freelance relationship. Remote preferred, but hybrid with occasional on-site (London or Midlands) is a possibility. I'm open to job descriptions beyond "data scientist", since my goal is to actually add value to an organisation through contracting/consulting.
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Services
· Data science: analysis with the Python data science toolkit, building machine learning models, rapid prototyping to test ideas at an early stage
· Training: development and delivery of bespoke training for both junior/experienced analysts and also non-technical teams. Topics: programming in Python, data science (analysis, visualisation, BI tools), machine learning
Languages/skillset:
Python, SQL, BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, even years of Crystal Reports), and web dev stack (HTML, CSS, JS, C#, ASP.NET MVC)
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Website: https://davidasboth.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-asboth-9256772b/
Comment · 5 years ago
Agreed, the engineering side is where valuable growth is/will be. Also from the limited sample I know of (people I know who are hiring managers) the candidate pool for data scientists lacks people with genuine analytical ability. Training models is easy, thinking the right way about data is hard.
Comment · 5 years ago
Chris Albon has a great pack on his website chrisalbon.com
Comment · 5 years ago
You say "I've enjoyed them much more than the machine learning I've done". I actually find the machine learning the LEAST interesting thing about a data science career in the sense that it's just another tool in your DS toolbox to solve open-ended problems that no one has properly tackled before. It sits in the same box as bar charts, web scraping, asking better questions etc. and you can do valuable work with a variety of approaches, not all of them machine learning. Not sure exactly what part of data science you feel you don't enjoy, and it sounds like you DO enjoy a variety of technical disciplines, but I was just curious whether you wholly equate data science with machine learning.
Comment · 6 years ago
What about paying for Google services? I do worry about my dependency on the GSuite, perhaps being a paid customer is the way to secure yourself a bit. Looks like the lowest paid tier is £15 a year, I should probably pay that!
Comment · 6 years ago
I was invited by a friend to contribute to a birthday card on it and loved the experience. Great job, will use this in the future!
Comment · 7 years ago
This is so spot on about Data Science in the "enterprise" or "legacy" organisations (i.e. basically pre-dating the data hype).
Personally getting stuff done with data in this environment is more satisfying than using the latest neural network, I presume you're the same?
Comment · 8 years ago
I'll second this. Switching from browsing news sites daily to just reading The Economist (in print, not online) has made me feel no less well-informed, if sometimes a few days out of date, but much less stressed about "keeping on top of the news", which is a losing game.
Comment · 8 years ago
Interesting - hardcore in what sense?
Comment · 8 years ago
raptitude.com is a great source of articles to remind you of the things that were compelling to you at any point about mindfulness and/or meditation. I also recommend the spin off http://campcalm.com if you're interested in meditation in particular.
If you're after books specifically, "Wherever you go, there you are" by Jon Kabat-Zinn is also good.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think the guy's doing that one on purpose to be honest. He's cashing in on the popularity of his (unintentionally) hilarious rendition of Big in Japan (or "bikicsunáj"): https://youtu.be/E2GFjXmXEsw
Comment · 8 years ago
Python for all the reasons people have mentioned here.
Tangential, but does anyone know of a playground environment where you can code (ro)bots in Python? I'm thinking of the old Robocode challenges, which were Java based, where you could write some logic and it would enter your bot in a tournament. Would be fun to do some game AI with Python like that.
Can I ask why? Is it work pressures, the convenience of it, or something else? I'm trying to resist making that switch myself but the few times I've used Claude Code for example have made me think whether to use the second method more...