Welcome to PyDataMCR episode 8 , today we are talking to Tom Liptrot who is a Consultant Data Scientist at Ortom, a Manchester based Data Science Consultancy.

We talk about how flexibility at work can lead to great data products, some various meetups Tom will be attending and even some stand up comedy.

Sponsors

Arctic Shores - arcticshores.com/

Cathcart Associates - cathcartassociates.com/

Meetups

Pydatamcr - https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Manchester/

Macnml - https://www.mancml.io/

Chester Data Insights - https://www.meetup.com/Chester-Data-Insights/

AiFrenzy - labs.uk.barclays/ai

Crap talks - https://www.meetup.com/CRAP-Talks-CRO-Analytics-Product-Manchester/

Bright festival - http://www.brightclub.org/

Tom

Ortom Data Science Consultancy - https://ortom.co.uk/

DSF blog post - https://ortom.co.uk/2019/03/22/data-fest-2019.html

Packages

Tidyverse - https://www.tidyverse.org/

Pandas - https://pandas.pydata.org/

dplyr - https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/

brms - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brms/index.html

pymc3 - https://docs.pymc.io/

XGBoost - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xgboost/index.html

glmnet - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/glmnet/index.html

keras - https://keras.io/

Book recommendation

Andrew Gelman - https://www.amazon.com/Red-State-Blue-Rich-Poor/dp/0691143935

Who you admire

Demis Hassabis - twitter.com/demishassabis?lang=en

Jeff Dean - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean_(computer_scientist)

Hadley Wickham - http://hadley.nz/

Hannah Fry - http://www.hannahfry.co.uk/

Andy Clark - https://twitter.com/fluffycyborg?lang=en

Karl J. Friston - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_J._Friston

Martin Eastwood - http://www.pena.lt/y/blog.html

Peak.ai - https://peak.ai/

Kayle Haynes - https://twitter.com/KayleaHaynes

Chris boddington - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-boddington-449555112/