Not the Jobtitle but the Activities

What exactly would you say you do here?

I call myself data engineer, data scientist, or machine learning engineer. But never an analist. To me these job-titles all have a certain meaning, but how would a recruiter know what these things mean? My understanding of the roles can also be different from someone else in the field. Some people (they are dicks) would like to keep everyone who is not building neural nets out of the title of data scientist. [Read More]

UseR2021: Integrating R into Production

A view on UseR 2021

This year’s useR was completely online, and I watched many of the talks. I believe the videos will be public in the future but there were some talks that I wanted to highlight. I think that the biggest problem with machine learning- (or even data-) projects is the integration with existing systems. Many machine learning products are batch or real-time predictions. For those predictions to make value you will need: [Read More]