Published in Priceloop Tech Blog·Nov 2, 2022How to build an external function on Priceloop NoCodeBuilding an external function to get currency rates in 11 lines of code and using it on Priceloop NoCode In this article, I want to show you how you can write an external function and use it on our NoCode platform. The entire process took me less than 5 minutes…No Code4 min readNo Code4 min read
Published in Priceloop Tech Blog·Oct 6, 2022Building and Integration of a simple ML Price Optimization model into Priceloop NoCodeIn many conversations with our clients and also working with them, we experienced that there is a huge shortage of IT people and therefore hindering many business opportunities. In particular, in pricing department this is the case, you have pricing managers who build their pricing logic/strategies in Excel sheets. …No Code7 min readNo Code7 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jun 24, 2019Member-onlySecrets Management Stinks, Use Some SOPS!Using SOPS to encrypt/decrypt credentials in YAML by using GPG — Motivation Let’s say you’re working on a software project and need to handle credentials. For example: You need to access a database from your application You need to provide credentials to your cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud You need to pass credentials to your CI/CD tool to build your…Security3 min readSecurity3 min read
Published in idealo Tech Blog·Jan 7, 2019Using Terraform to Quick Start PySpark on AWS📖 Step-by-step guide on how to use Terraform to spin up an EMR cluster with PySpark and Anaconda on AWS. — A long time ago I wrote a post about how we can use boto3 to jump start PySpark with Anaconda on AWS. I also wrote some amount of code for it. Fast forward to 2019, the code is old and outdated. Technology has also evolved and these days people are…AWS6 min readAWS6 min read
Published in idealo Tech Blog·Jul 17, 2018Falcon vs. Flask — Which one to pick to create a scalable deep learning REST APIAnother comparison of two Python web frameworks — Flask and Falcon as a machine learning rest API — At idealo.de, we sometimes have critical services where speeds matters. For example, we have millions of hotel images for which we need an “attractiveness” assessment. Going through each image every time is very time-consuming and can take up weeks if not done properly. Therefore, it is critical to optimize each…Python4 min readPython4 min read
Published in idealo Tech Blog·Jun 16, 2018What is Minimum Viable (Data) Product?🤖 A personal view on what MVP means for machine learning products… — A couple of months ago I left Pivotal to join idealo.de (the leading price comparison website in Europe and one of the largest portals in the German e-commerce market) to help them integrating machine learning (ML) into their products. Besides the usual tasks like building out the data science team…Lean Startup9 min readLean Startup9 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Oct 10, 2017How you can ditch PowerPoint and build better slides with Jupyter and Reveal.jsIn this article, I will introduce jupyter2slides — a little side project of mine that lets you easily create beautiful and interactive presentation slides using Jupyter Notebook and reveal.js. Here’s what it looks like:Design3 min readDesign3 min read
Published in Built to Adapt·Aug 18, 2017Why the AI Hype Train is Already off the Rails and Why I’m Over AI AlreadyOne data scientist on the hype around artificial intelligence. — When I started my data science career at Accenture in 2013, everyone in the industry — from automotive to telecommunication — was into “big data.” In fact, according to Gartner’s Hype Cycle that year, big data was at the “peak of inflated expectations.” Being a cool kid on the data…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jul 28, 2017How to train your own Object Detector with TensorFlow’s Object Detector APIThis is a follow-up post on “Building a Real-Time Object Recognition App with Tensorflow and OpenCV” where I focus on training my own classes. Specifically, I trained my own Raccoon detector on a dataset that I collected and labeled by myself. The full dataset is available on my Github repo. …TensorFlow8 min readTensorFlow8 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jul 19, 2017My two cents on what makes a good data scientist nowadays?My parents recently asked me what I do for living again. In the past, it was not that easy to explain as being in data science was not a well-defined field. Even when I started my first job at Accenture, I barely knew what I really do. …Data Science6 min readData Science6 min read
