Becoming A Data Scientist | Documenting my path from "SQL Data Analyst...

This week, I gave a talk at Valley TechCon in Harrisonburg, VA (where I live), which is a conference that features tech businesses and practitioners from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and is in its 2nd year. There were a bunch of cool topics and...

In the first episode of the Becoming a Data Scientist podcast recorded in front of a live audience, Renee interviews Andrew Therriault – formerly the Director of Data Science for the Democratic National Committee & Chief Data Officer for the City...

I promised the audience at the RVATech Summit yesterday that I’d post the updated slides for my “Can a Machine be Racist or Sexist?” talk, so here they are!
Here is the link to the previous post, which has a pdf version of the slides that’s almost identical, and a video from when I gave this talk at Tom Tom Fest Applied Machine Learning Conference in 2018....

The 2019 iteration of Tom Tom Fest (named after Thomas Jefferson) starts in under a month, and the Applied Machine Learning Conference (AMLC) is just over a month away, on April 11, in Charlottesville, VA!
This is a conference I’ve helped plan since the beginning, and it’s grown in 3 years from a single theater with a partial day of talks to 4 theaters with non-stop presentations all day, plus keynotes in an even larger venue!...