If the title didn’t give it away, allow me to be explicit in the spirit of the Zen of Python. Don’t expect much out of reading this post. I’d originally planned to write an year-in-review blog like I’d done last … Continue reading Half-baked life lessons from a twenty-something data engineer
As referenced in my last blog post, useR Delhi NCR is all set to host our second meetup on 15th December, i.e. upcoming Saturday. We’ve finalized two exciting speaker sessions for the same. They’re as follows: Basics of Shiny and … Continue reading R community update: announcing sessions for useR Delhi December meetup
Time really does fly. It’s been 5 months since Delhi NCR useR group had come into being and our first meetup. It was a successful event which included sessions featuring an R-core member and a veteran data scientist. More importantly, … Continue reading R community update: announcing useR Delhi December meetup and CFP
In my last post, I’d pointed out the importance of a local community and described how Delhi NCR useR group came about. It’s been a month since we’d started the group and I’m excited to announce that our first meetup is scheduled to take place on 14th July 2018, i.e. upcoming Saturday. Venue for the event is SocialCops headquarters in Saket, New Delhi. As a budding community, support from established organizations is a big boost, and we’re grateful to SocialCops for coming onboard as mentors and venue partners. Event details can be found on meetup and you can RSVP here … Continue reading R community update: announcing useR Delhi July meetup
“The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.” – Jeff Bridges Over the past few years, R’s adoption has grown rapidly throughout the world. Much of it can be attributed to the growth of ‘data science’ as a domain. But R’s popularity primarily exists because of its amazing community and their contributions. Be it through open source development, Twitter (#rstats), discussion forums or programs such as Google Summer of Code (GSoC), there are numerous channels for beginners and practitioners to interact with each other. I’ve had the opportunity to interact … Continue reading R community update: announcing New Delhi useR meetup group
Right from my undergrad days when I was starting out with machine learning to this date, my admiration for Kaggle continues to grow. In addition to being synonymous with and popularizing data science competitions, the platform has served as a launching pad and breeding ground for countless data science and machine learning practitioners around the world, including yours truly. In fact, skills I’d picked up from the platform are part of the reason that I recently got to join SocialCops, a company I’d admired for years. However, I hadn’t been on the platform in 2017 as much as I would … Continue reading Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time
DISCLAIMER: Before you begin, be aware that the protagonist of any fictional account that this write-up might contain would be a male and would be referred to as a ‘he’ or at times, simply as ‘coder’. That’s not because the … Continue reading Open Source: The itch, the hustle and the merge
“You promised me Mars colonies. Instead, I got Facebook.” – Buzz Aldrin, MIT Tech Review 2012 The Apollo Mission, the controversy surrounding it’s verifiability notwithstanding, remains arguably the most audacious technological project ever undertaken successfully by humankind. A bunch of … Continue reading Technology in a rut
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