Jared Rand

35 posts

Build a Data Science Team from Scratch

Is your organization beginning it's analytics or AI journey? One of the first steps will be building a data science team to help develop and deploy machine learning models. I was lucky to have the opportunity to be the…

December 9, 2020

Singleton Fails with Multiprocessing in Python

A singleton is a class designed to only permit a single instance. They have a bad reputation, but do have (limited) valid uses. Singletons present lots of headaches, and may throw errors when used with multiprocessing…

December 5, 2020

Designing a Blog Ranking System

Every year a slew of top blog lists are published for every topic under the sun (think "Top 10 Blogs in Data Science for 2020"). Most are manually curated, many are biased by the business interests of the publisher, few…

November 21, 2020

Popular Python Packages for Data Science

Discover the most popular Python packages for data science, including essentials like Numpy and Pandas along with hidden gems like Seaborn and spaCy.

November 15, 2020

What Does a Data Scientist Do?

Have you been wondering what a data scientist does? This article will clarify what a data scientist does and does not do. We'll show why data science is such a great career, and how it compares to similar roles. Why…

November 12, 2020