Probably my first, marginally meaningful, PR to an open source project, topmodel by Stripe https://github.com/stripe/topmodel/pull/23

Just watched Raymond Hettinger, Beyond PEP 8. You must watch it if writing code is (a part of) what you do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

Just read Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets. What a great paper. Abstract here http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4781121 full text here http://yifanhu.net/PUB/cf.pdf Spark implementation here https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-collaborative-filtering.html

New post on the GoDataDriven blog! http://blog.godatadriven.com/parallel-connection.html

Full day hackathons at GoDataDriven are great! Just found the time to write a README and upload our parallel-connection Python package to PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parallel-connection/0.1.1

Github page here: http://github.com/godatadriven/ParallelConnection

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/08/how-apache-spark-scala-and-functional-programming-made-hard-problems-easy-at-barclays/

Three legendary nerds launch a web-based data visualization framework

Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js

https://tonicdev.com

Get started with Explorative Computing in Python. A great set of IPython notebooks to hit the ground running.

Exploratory computing with Python by Mark Bakker http://mbakker7.github.io/exploratory_computing_with_python/

When I was born they were out of good timing, so I had to do with intelligence and problem solving skills!

http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-neuroscience-of-drumming.html

Amazon, a horrible place to work after all!

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html