This Data Scientist Is Using AI to Revolutionize the Farming Industry
An interview with The Muse about my experience at Bowery and the not-obvious career path that led me to vertical farming.
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Modern Data Analysis: Don’t Trust Your Spreadsheet
Companies are innovating and improving the craft of using data to do business. Companies like Betterment are hiring data scientists and analysts who use...
A Data Scientist’s History of Buggy
I was very kindly invited to give a talk at Carnegie Mellon during the Buggy Showcase (aka Design Comp) portion of Spring Carnival. For the uninitiated, ‘Bug...
WOD Data: CrossFit Open 15.5
After five ‘suspenseful’ Thursday announcements, and five times laid out on the mat, we’ve got the 5th breakdown for the stats crowd.
WOD Data: CrossFit Open 15.4
15.4! Hand stand pushups and (pretty) heavy cleans. Did you have em? More people showed up this week with HSPUs than had muscle ups last week, but it was s...
WOD Data: CrossFit Open 15.3
I was so tired from those muscle ups it took me an extra couple of days to get this post up. In the mean time, we’ve had a new player enter the scene: Cross...
CrossFit Games Data 2012-2015
Mission part 1: Bring CrossFit data mainstream. Success!
WOD Data: CrossFit Open 15.2
Last week’s post about 15.1 was a hit, so I’m back with 15.2 and it’s bigger and better. First off, we’ve got a treasure trove of new data. I collected all ...
What’s normal (or top 5%) for a CrossFit athlete?
Ever see a 32 year old 5’10” 185lb guy walking down the street with a 32 year old 5’5″ 135lb lady and say, “Now those are some CrossFit people!”? Well you s...
WOD Data: CrossFit Open 15.1
note: some readers noticed that I had fewer athletes in my data than CrossFit was reporting. I originally collected the scores after score submissions close...
Where did you really stack up in the 2014 CrossFit Open WODs?
If you’re like me, you know your scores on the CrossFit Open WODs, and you looked up what ranks those scores got you. But what does 71,786th out of 153,305...
talks
Migrating 387 data models from Redshift to Snowflake @ dbt Meetup
A talk with Travis Dunlop for the dbt meet-up we hosted at Bowery. We shared revelations from our experiencing of migrating our dbt project from Redshift to ...
Using dbt in a machine learning pipeline @ dbt Meetup
How we use dbt as our feature store for most ML projects at Bowery Farming which allows for an elegant stack, predictable dependencies across code bases, and...
AI farming: 100x the yield with a data team of 1 @ Data Council NYC
At Data Council’s NYC conference, I described how I built data ingestion, warehousing, analytics, and productionized machine learning with a team of 1 using ...
Investor behavior during the 2016 election @ Mixpanel meetup
A talk I gave about Betterment’s customer behavior during the 2016 election. The talk was part of Mixpanel’s “Office Hours” series in which companies share h...
Data Science at Betterment @ MIT FinTech Conference
In May of 2015, I gave at talk at the MIT Fintech Conference about our work at Betterment using unprecedented data on investor behavior to close the “Behavio...