An introduction to Gradient Boosting 

PyCon 2016

In 2016, I again had the pleasure of presenting to the annual Python Ireland Conference or PyCon. I gave a talk on “Gradient Boosting” which was aimed at introducing this technique in terms of general data science aspects but also the Python libraries that one can ues for it.

The …

Using the Public Cloud to Scale Your Capabilities 

Dublin R User Group

I had the pleasure of presenting to the Dublin R User Group on 24 Nov 2015 on ‘Using the Public Cloud to Scale Your Capabilities’. My talk source and examples are in a Github repo. The talk was the third in my series on R and machine learning to the …

Data Pipelines with Python and MongoDB 

PyCon 2015 / MongoDB Days 2015 UK

I had the pleasure of presenting at PyCon 2015 and also at MongoDB Days UK 2015 on building data pipelines with Python and MongoDB.

Both of my talks source’s and examples are in Github repos, PyCon 2015 and MongoDB Days UK 2015. The PyCon talk was aimed at introducing …

Recapping SRECon EU 2015 

Part 2

This is the second part of my notes and thoughts on SRECon Europe 2015. The first part covers focuses on the workshops and some of the talks I attended.

Talks

Opening Keynote - PostOps: Recovery from Operations

The tone of the conference was set by Todd Underwood who is the Director …

Recapping SRECon EU 2015 

Site Reliablity Engineering from a European Perspective

I had the pleasure of helping to organise as well as attending SRECon Europe 2015. I have pulled together a few of my notes and links of interest to recap what was an excellent conference. It was focused on operations engineering and on site reliability topics with speakers from many …

Machine Learning of Machines with R 

Dublin R User Group

Following my introduction presentation to the Dublin R User Group on machine learning, I again had the pleasure of being invited to talk on more machine learning. My talk source and examples are in a Github repo. The talk was more intermediate than my previous introductory talk. It used two …

Introduction to Machine Learning with R 

Dublin R User Group

I had the pleasure of presenting to the Dublin R User Group on machine learning. My talk source and examples are in a Github repo. The talk was aimed at introducing machine learning to the group as I hope to follow this talk up with more intermediate topics.

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