The Personal Python Data Science Toolkit - Part 1

As a Data Scientist you will be spending a large chunk of your time doing repetitive work across projects. You get a new data set and you run the same boilerplate code for your analysis: Import data, check for missing values, distribution check, cleansing, yada yada … I know, datasets are very different yet I still see how often times the very same steps are repeated blindly in notebooks over and over again....

October 5, 2020 Â· alex franz

Public speaking as an exercise

Two weeks ago I had the great pleasure to co-organize the AI in Action MeetUp at the office of my employer Sennder. With the MeetUp’s theme centered around mobility and logistics, I had the honor of presenting a talk on Geospatial Feature Engineering. Presenting a talk at the local MeetUp Start small - practice often Public speaking is still considered to be amongst the most dreaded activities for people (Glossophobia) - this used to apply to me as well....

February 23, 2020 Â· alex franz