charming the snake for fun and profitDatascope Runs on Python

Brian Lange for ChiPy, Feb. 2016

who is this guy?

who are these folks?

What we do

Strategy

Consulting

Development

Training

What we use Python for

Consulting

Development

Training

Run a business

Other things we think

are fun or important

python is our

“lingua franca”

Why?- Most of the reasons most of those other people

said or will say

- Great for prototyping

- Used in the world of science

- Easy to learn/teach

in practice

Consulting - Jupyter notebooks can be nice for keeping notes and iterating on plots

- Quick scripts play nice with unix tools

- libraries like Scikit-Learn, seaborn

- prototype -> production is fast

- let the database do the heavy lifting

- develop our own tools when necessary

ConsultingDevelopment

datascopeanalytics/traces

- Jupyter notebooks make great self-guided assignments

- Class hacks

ConsultingDevelopmentTraining

- website/blog: running on Django

- treat ourselves like a client

ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a business

datascopeanalytics/a-modelBank account/revenue simulation + forecasting

ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a business

datascopeanalytics/a-modelBank account/revenue simulation + forecasting

- fun blog posts ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a businessOther things we think are fun or important

ConsultingDevelopmentTrainingRun a businessOther things we think are fun or important

datascopeanalytics/scrubadubRemoving personally identifiable information from text

- fun blog posts

- open source tools

.co@bjlange

thanks!