This week's guest is Dr. Jeroen Janssens, a global expert and bestselling author on effectively leveraging the Unix command line as a data scientist.

Jeroen:

Wrote the popular book "Data Science at the Command Line", the second edition of which was published by O'Reilly Media in October
Is the Founder Data Science Workshops B.V., which provides hands-on workshops to global orgs such as Amazon and The New York Times
Is Organizer of the Data Science Netherlands Meetup (3000+ members)
Former Assistant Professor at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Has worked as a data scientist for Elsevier, YPlan, and Outbrain
Holds a PhD in A.I. from Tilburg University

In today’s episode, Jeroen details:

Why being able to do data science at the command-line — for example, in a Bash terminal — is an invaluable skill for a data scientist to have
How mastering the command line is the glue that facilitates “polyglot data science”, the ability to seamlessly borrow functions from any programming language in a single workflow
His PhD research on detecting anomalous events in time-series data
Why LaTeX is a great typesetting language to consider using particularly for creating lengthy documents or technical figures that adapt automatically to new data
How his consulting company, Data Science Workshops, grew organically out of his success as an author

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