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Sales managers demand higher pay than support. Executives overpay favorites. Titles get inflated. After acquisitions, people do the same work but earn different amounts. This tool implements the Point-Factor Method to grade every role with an explicit rubric. Free, open-source, runs in the browser.
I spent weeks chasing the perfect local LLM setup on my MacBook. Here is what I learned, what broke, and what actually works.
Python is touted as the language to learn and use for DS and ML thanks to its easy to understand syntax making it quick to write, free and open-source for simple adoption, vast DS & ML toolset making you spoilt for choice, and large community ready to help. However, there are many cracks which start to show when using Python in production.
A step-by-step guide to scraping free historical stock data from Yahoo Finance using Python, complete with working source code.
I recently got to deploy Java code to a back-end service in production
I recently got to deploy Java code to a back-end service in production
I recently had the pleasure of giving a talk on Geospatial Analytics at the Munich Business School (MBS). My talk “Geospatial Intelligence” covered a brief introduction into Geospatial data, what it looks like, its challenges, and how it can be applied towards business strategies. Some students had a few interesting questions which I thought were interesting to elaborate further on in…
Julia is a fairly modern scientific programming language that is free, high-level, fast, and bundles a bunch of awesome features that makes Julia working with data great again. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service which allows you to easily analyze your data collecting dust in Amazon S3 storage using your good old friend SQL. Julia is great for working with data, Athena is great for…
The “science” in Data Science is supposed to refer to the fact that doing Data Science involves conducting experiments with data. In any other field failed experiments are accepted, you wouldn’t want a drug company to push out a new drug which failed internal tests, so why is it frowned upon in Data Science?
There is a common misconception that being a Data Scientist means that you do not need to care about writing good clean code, because you’re not a Software Developer. If you’re a firm believer of this, please take some time to hear me out. I hope to have at least gotten you to reconsider by the end of this post.
Data Science competitions have become extremely popular in the past 5 years. They are not only popular on sites such as Kaggle, but also when interviewing with companies for a role on the job market in the form of a candidate test. These tests have quickly turned into a way to judge the performance of a participant/candidate’s submission and determine whether they have succeeded in the…
Even though it has 1-based indexing.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on the 25th of May, 2018; along with it a number of penalties for companies who fail to abide by these rules. These penalties can be very harsh, up to €20M or 4% of your company’s annual worldwide revenue. The European Commission (EC) has stated that no exceptions will be made after the 25th of May, and failure to comply will…
Are you tired of your employees accessing social networks at work? Maybe you feel that your employees are spending more time checking their Facbook feed rather than crunching the numbers. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, how dare they do something else other than what you’re paying them for? In fact, why don’t you just strip out all the applications from their computers, lock them down,…
Have you ever looked at a job ad, skimmed through it, and decided not to apply because you thought that you could not even come close to matching the requirements the ad was asking for? Maybe you were job hunting and felt like you were being flooded with job ads having impossible requirements making you shake your head in disbelief.
Senior software engineer combining backend engineering, data science, geospatial modelling and production ownership to build pricing and mobility systems.
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