When I first was introduced to the idea of adversarial learning for security purposes by Clarence Chio's 2016 DEF CON talk and his related open-source library deep-pwning, I immediately started wondering about applications of the field to both make robust and well-tested models, but also as a preventative measure against …

I presented a keynote at PyData Warsaw on moving toward interpretable reliable models. The talk was inspired by some of the work I admire in the field as well as a fear that if we do not address interpretable models as a community, we will be factors in our own …

Unless you have been avoiding all news, you have likely heard of the coming changes in European privacy regulations which go into effect in May 2018. The changes are covered under the General Data Privacy Regulation Directive, whose final text was made available in May 2016.

I presented a talk …

I was invited to give a talk at 404 Dublin, a really cool conference joining community groups w/ tech folks and art installations. When thinking of what topics might be of interest to the audience, I selfishly went to one of my (side) passions.. following artists who are doing amazing …

This past Wednesday, I had the pleasure of giving a keynote at EuroPython 2017. I covered a historical view of ethics in computing. The slides are shared here, but it was also recorded so I will post a video when it is available. (Updated: video added!)

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I was kindly asked by the PyData Amsterdam organizers to keynote the conference. As a passionate fan of ethical machine learning and the great research being done by data scientists and academics around the world -- I am very enthused to present the topic to the conference.

My slides are currently …

The saddest moment for me at conferences is when I'm in the middle of an interesting conversation with a bright person and I ask her when her talk is and she says, "Who me?"

The number of folks I speak with every year at conferences who have amazing stories to …

I gave a talk about Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and Dask at PyConCZ 2016. It was super fun and I had a great time at the conference. If you want to read my slides below, here they are! There will be videos available later, so I'll post the link / video …

PyConCZ 2016 was such a fun conference! First off, it was the first time I got to see Jackie Kazil since we started writing our O'Reilly book Data Wrangling with Python together, HOORAYYYY!

OMG PYTHONISTAS! @JackieKazil & I are together for the first time since we started the @OReillyMedia Data Wrangling …

I gave a talk at PyCon UK 2016 on automating your data cleanup with Python. I want to again thank the organizers for having me and thank the folks who attended. If you have any questions or are interested in talking about data cleaning problems, feel free to reach out …