January 9, 2018 at 6:29 PM
Uh, the GoDataDriven open source edition December 2017 is here! Two new open source projects published in December, by Vincent Warmerdam, Rogier van der Geer, and Robert Rodger!
Uh, the GoDataDriven open source edition December 2017 is here! Two new open source projects published in December, by Vincent Warmerdam, Rogier van der Geer, and Robert Rodger!
Brilliant passage by John Gruber “This is like Philip Morris introducing officially licensed candy cigarettes. You’re nuts if you sign your kids up for this.” https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/04/facebook-messenger-kids
People never learn: I’ve been invited again to talk about Applied Data Science. This time at the Talent Event:
Bonus points if you find out how to register (I’m so glad they sent a free ticket so I don’t have to figure it out :)
New batch of GoDataDriven shoes are on their way, with a twist!

If you look like Christian Bale in American Psyco in your LinkedIn profile picture… maybe it’s time to change it
It has taken me a while, but I’ve found the slide to close all my talks, featuring the Chief, a.k.a. Rob Dielemans
And yes, in case you’re wondering: GoDataDriven is hiring!

We just received an applicant who wrote this in his CV.
Who the heck thought writing this was a good idea?

Ok, this is starting to scare me
No, even for companies, the GDPR is not (only) bad news!
This is important:
“The real story of machine learning is not how it promotes home bomb-making, but that it’s being deployed at scale with minimal ethical oversight”
Not true for every company, but it happens inside companies so large they can shape the future of the world.