This week's guest is THE Jared Lander! He fills us in on real-life communities that support learning about — and effectively applying — open-source statistical-programming languages like Python and R.
In addition, Jared:
• Overviews what data-science consulting is like (with fascinating use-cases from industrial metallurgy to "Money Ball"-ing for the Minnesota Vikings)
• Details the hard and soft skills of successful data-science consultants
• Ventures eloquently into the age-old R versus Python debate
Jared leads the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup, which is the world's largest R meetup — but it also features other open-source programming languages like Python — for talks from global leaders in data science and machine learning. And Jared runs the R Conference, which is approaching its seventh annual iteration next week, Sep 9-10.
Jared also wrote the bestselling book "R for Everyone" and teaches stats at both Columbia University in the City of New York and Princeton University. And none of the massive responsibilities that I've just mentioned are Jared's day job! Nope, for that he's the CEO and Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, a data-science consulting firm.
Watch or listen here.
P.S.: Jared is kindly providing 20% off admission to next week's R Conference off using promo code SDS20. See rstats.nyc for more details, including the first-ever live episode of SuperDataScience (with Drew Conway as guest)!
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DataScienceGo This Weekend
The DataScienceGO conference is this weekend — registration for Friday and Saturday is 100% free! I'm speaking Saturday on the pros and cons of TensorFlow vs PyTorch for training and deploying deep-learning models.
Awesome speakers — whom you may already be familiar with from recent SuperDataScience episodes — include:
• Erica Greene (episode # 435)
• Harpreet Sahota (# 457)
• Andrew Jones (# 483)
I don't (yet!) personally know the other speakers pictured here but their weighty reputations precede them and I'm looking forward to getting to know them better over the course of the weekend: Gabriela de Queiroz, Karen JEAN-FRANCOIS, Yudan Lin, Ken Jee, and Danny Ma.
Free registration here!
TensorFlow vs PyTorch @ DataScienceGo Virtual
The DataScienceGO Virtual conference is coming up next Saturday and it is FREE! I'm giving a talk on TensorFlow vs PyTorch with lots of time for audience questions.