talks

This repository holds information on talks I've given at conferences and meetups.

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Conferences and Meetups

Click the "title" links below for links to slides, code, and other background information.

title	video(s)
"Comparing {lightgbm} to other R GBDT libraries"	New York Stats Meetup (May 2021)
"Dask and LightGBM (light intro)"	Austin Python Meetup (Nov 2021)
"Does that CSV belong on PyPI? Probably not"	SciPy 2022
"Economics Consulting"	---
"Economics as a Science"	---
"Economists Should Learn Data Science"	---
"Every Way SpotHero Uses Python"	ChiPy __main__ meeting (Mar 2022)
"How Distributed LightGBM on Dask Works"	Dask Distributed Summit (May 2021)
"Intro to Cloud Computing"	iRisk Lab Hack Night (Apr 2020)
"LightGBM's Road to CRAN"	satRdays Chicago (Apr 2020)
"People Shape Software"	satRdays Chicago (Apr 2019)
"Prefect in 5 Minutes"	ChiPy Data SIG (May 2021)
"Proliferation of New Database Technologies and Implications for Data Science"	Domino Data Science Pop-Up (Oct 2017)
"R From the Command Line"	LA R Users (Mar 2021)
"Recent Developments in LightGBM"	LA Data Science Meetup (Jan 2021)
"Road to a Data Science Career"	iRisk Lab Hack Night (Aug 2020)
"Scaling LightGBM with Python and Dask"	PyData Montreal (Jan 2021) Chicago ML (Jan 2021)
"Scaling Machine Learning with Python and Dask"	Chicago Cloud Conference (Sep 2020) ODSC East (Apr 2021)
"Those tables were empty!"	---
"Using Retry Logic in R HTTP Clients"	---
"You can do Open Source"	satRdays Chicago (Apr 2019)
"You can and should do Open Source"	CatBoost: от 0 до 1.0.0

Podcasts

• "Building for Small Data Science Teams" (MLOps Community podcast (Dec 2021))
• "From Open Source to Traditional ML" (Top End Devs (Dec 2023))

Writing

• "Scaling LightGBM with Dask" (ODSC Blog (Feb 2021))
• "What does a Machine Learning Engineer Do?" (MLOps Community Blog (Sep 2022))
• "Once A Maintainer: James Lamb" (Allison Pike's "Once a Maintainer" Blog (Oct 2023))