Many thanks to all who attended the talk @jayjacobs & I gave at @SOURCEconf on Thursday, April 18, 2013. As promised, here are the [slides](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43553/SOURCE-Boston-2013.pdf) which should be much less washed out than the projector version :-) We’ve enumerated quite a bit of non-slide-but-in-presentation information that we wanted to aggregate into a blog post so… Continue reading
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My Picks From #PyCon2013
While you can (and should) view [all the presentations](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides) from #PyCon2013, here are my picks for the ones that interested me the most, as they focus on scaling, mapping, automation (both web & electronics) and data analysis: – [Chef: Why you should automate your web infrastructure](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/chef-why-you-should-automate-your-web-infrastructure-by-kate-heddleston) by Kate Heddleston – [Messaging at Scale at Instagram](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/messaging-at-scale-at-instagram-by-rick-branson)… Continue reading
Data Crunching Competitions
I came across a list of data crunching and/or visualization competition sites today. I had heard of Kaggle & NITRD before but not the other ones. If you’re looking to get into data analytics/visualization or get better at it, the only way to do so is to practice. Using other data sets (outside your expertise… Continue reading