It has been almost three years since I’ve organized the first Code Breakfast with the PyData Community (link https://www.meetup.com/PyData-NL/events/244569104/).

What a resilient initiative! Now with covid19 keeping us home, the breakfasts have moved to online as well.

The last iteration is about time series

https://godatadriven.com/topic/online-code-breakfast-seasonality-modelling-from-scratch/

There’s one gotcha though: you need to provide the croissants yourself!

Enjoy!

#pydata #datascience #timeseries

Working from home, staying at home, home-schooling.

How to combine it all?

Today the kids’ school asked us to go into the woods and — maintaining a religious distance of at least 15m between people of different households — catalogue everything they saw.

So here’s a picture of me while in the middle of a conference call with APMG International. We’ll announce something big in the next few weeks, we couldn’t postpone.

In the background you can see my kids writing about a tree infected with oak processionary caterpillar.

In the background a snapshot of the typical Dutch weather: 50 shades of grey!

#covid19life #50shadesofgrey #hashtagswithnumbers

Don’t @ me!

It’s has been a good while since we’ve been giving online courses.

The feedback has always been great.

It was easy — last week — to switch all our courses to online-only. And… we introduced two more, online first courses.

You’re gonna love them!

https://godatadriven.com/topic/online-training-specials/

This awesome Dutch webshop warns its customers not to use a chainsaw to open its boxes 🤔

Spark is not an easy beast. Even more challenging at Booking.com scale.

But Oleksandra Bovkun and Roman Ivanov have tamed it: Spark Optimization at Booking.com scale!

To the guy who spit on my face while I was cycling minding my own business: I’ve let my friends from Palermo know.

They’ll get in touch!

xxx

You’re wasting money with data science!

https://godatadriven.com/blog/wasting-money-with-data-science/

This week the kids had holidays.

So what does a mother of six do to keep them busy with science and art in a creative way?

She lets them paint the solar system!

Can’t wait to hang them in their room!

It is with immense pleasure that I can present GoDataDriven’s training guide for 2020. We are so proud of it — and the curriculum it present — I had to write a blog post to introduce it.

Without further ado, here’s the link! https://godatadriven.com/blog/godatadriven-2020-training-guide/

Some colleagues mix Nutella and butter for their bread.

I beg them not to do it while in Italy: that’s a treason felony there and it can get you in real trouble.

#dontmixnutellawithbutter

(Having fun with some hashtags now to trick LinkedIn algorithms #italy #felony #digitalmarketing #algorithms #havingfun)