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Feb 24, 2022

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Signals

As an outspoken, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) advocate, I often get asked what signals I look for in a company that indicate to me that they care about DEI. This post lists some signs I look for when I’m interviewing. …

Diversity And Inclusion

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Signals
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Signals
Diversity And Inclusion

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Feb 24, 2022

What I’m Looking For in my Next Job

This post describes what I’m looking for in my next data science leadership position. I wrote this both to help me prepare for interviews and in case it’s helpful to anyone else to see what I look for in a company. …

Data Science

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What I’m Looking For in my Next Job
What I’m Looking For in my Next Job
Data Science

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Aug 7, 2020

What’s in a Name: SR Data Science Python Libraries 2.0

When I first started at ShopRunner three years ago, my coworker Hanna and I excitedly chose Harry Potter as the theme for our repo names. We both loved the series, and it seemed like it would be relatively easy to find names that loosely connected with our projects. Fast-forward to…

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What’s in a Name: SR Data Science Python Libraries 2.0
What’s in a Name: SR Data Science Python Libraries 2.0

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May 7, 2019

Solving D414: Section has no content

Today I went down a long rabbit hole trying to solve a linting error for a coworker. Our team at ShopRunner uses numpy docstrings, and we check our code with flake8 and flake8-docstrings. My coworker had written a method that looked like this: def my_sweet_method(self, examples): """…

Python

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Python

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Apr 17, 2019

One week at the Recurse Center

Before RC I first heard about the Recurse Center in 2016. RC hosts self-directed educational retreats for batches of programmers; basically go hang out in Brooklyn with cool people who like learning (yes, please!). I knew I would love to attend one of their retreats, but it was not feasible…

Programming

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One week at the Recurse Center
One week at the Recurse Center
Programming

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Mar 4, 2019

How to Spend ¾ of Your Yearly Budget in 3 Weeks: A PySpark Cautionary Tale

This is a cautionary tale of how I spent a large amount of money running PySpark clusters and what I discovered about deploying a recommendation engine at scale. I’ll describe how I finally chased down an intermittent error and lessons learned along the way including why you can’t always write PySpark code like Python code and how important it is to check third party library integrations. Originally published at https://shoprunnerblog.wordpress.com on March 4, 2019.

Python

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How to Spend ¾ of Your Yearly Budget in 3 Weeks: A PySpark Cautionary Tale
How to Spend ¾ of Your Yearly Budget in 3 Weeks: A PySpark Cautionary Tale
Python

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Feb 14, 2019

PyData NYC 2018: How to spend 3/4 of your budget in 3 weeks

This past October, I traveled to NYC to give a talk about spending a lot of ShopRunner’s money. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkmrgfwEyE

Data Science

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PyData NYC 2018: How to spend 3/4 of your budget in 3 weeks
PyData NYC 2018: How to spend 3/4 of your budget in 3 weeks
Data Science

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Nicole Carlson

Nicole Carlson

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