Successful delivery of data projects This week we organized a round table with people involved in the management of data projects. Mostly data science. The idea came after the Executives at PyData session organized earlier this year. And...
Some context This post is mainly a technical post on what's the status of the pandas documentation. But let me provide a bit of context on where this comes from. It's a personal opinion, but I think pandas is one of the clearest examples of how...
Some exciting news. After some years of organizing sprints, and maintaining open source, I've been thinking on a more efficient workflow for projects with high volume of activity, like pandas. An exaggerated example would be that I want to create...
Last week took place in Bilbao, Spain, EuroSciPy 2019. This year we introduced the maintainers track a room dedicated to discussions among maintainers. The idea is similar to the birds of a feather or unconference sessions of other conferences....
Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at UC Berkeley, known among other things for his major contributions to CART (decision trees), and ensemble techniques, mainly bootstrap aggregation. Combining both, he was able to define one of the...