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Python Interviews

By : Michael Driscoll
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Python Interviews

By: Michael Driscoll

Overview of this book

Each of these twenty Python Interviews can inspire and refresh your relationship with Python and the people who make Python what it is today. Let these interviews spark your own creativity, and discover how you also have the ability to make your mark on a thriving tech community. This book invites you to immerse in the Python landscape, and let these remarkable programmers show you how you too can connect and share with Python programmers around the world. Learn from their opinions, enjoy their stories, and use their tech tips. • Brett Cannon - former director of the PSF, Python core developer, led the migration to Python 3. • Steve Holden - tireless Python promoter and former chairman and director of the PSF. • Carol Willing - former director of the PSF and Python core developer, Project Jupyter Steering Council member. • Nick Coghlan - founding member of the PSF's Packaging Working Group and Python core developer. • Jessica McKellar - former director of the PSF and Python activist. • Marc-André Lemburg - Python core developer and founding member of the PSF. • Glyph Lefkowitz - founder of Twisted and fellow of the PSF • Doug Hellmann - fellow of the PSF, creator of the Python Module of the Week blog, Python community member since 1998. • Massimo Di Pierro - fellow of the PSF, data scientist and the inventor of web2py. • Alex Martelli - fellow of the PSF and co-author of Python in a Nutshell. • Barry Warsaw - fellow of the PSF, Python core developer since 1995, and original member of PythonLabs. • Tarek Ziadé - founder of Afpy and author of Expert Python Programming. • Sebastian Raschka - data scientist and author of Python Machine Learning. • Wesley Chun - fellow of the PSF and author of the Core Python Programming books. • Steven Lott - Python blogger and author of Python for Secret Agents. • Oliver Schoenborn - author of Pypubsub and wxPython mailing list contributor. • Al Sweigart - bestselling author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and creator of the Python modules Pyperclip and PyAutoGUI. • Luciano Ramalho - fellow of the PSF and the author of Fluent Python. • Mike Bayer - fellow of the PSF, creator of open source libraries including SQLAlchemy. • Jake Vanderplas - data scientist and author of Python Data Science Handbook.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Python Interviews
Foreword
Contributor
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Free Chapter
1
Brett Cannon
2
Steve Holden
3
Carol Willing
4
Glyph Lefkowitz
5
Doug Hellmann
6
Massimo Di Pierro
7
Alex Martelli
8
Marc-André Lemburg
9
Barry Warsaw
10
Jessica McKellar
11
Tarek Ziadé
12
Sebastian Raschka
13
Wesley Chun
14
Steven Lott
15
Oliver Schoenborn
16
Al Sweigart
17
Luciano Ramalho
18
Nick Coghlan
19
Mike Bayer
20
Jake Vanderplas

Chapter 12. Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka received his doctorate in Quantitative Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2017, from Michigan State University. His research activities included the development of new deep learning architectures to solve problems in the field of biometrics. Sebastian is the bestselling author of Python Machine Learning, which received the ACM Best of Computing award in 2016. He contributes to many open source projects including scikit-learn. Methods that Sebastian implemented are being used in real-world machine learning applications such as Kaggle. He is passionate about helping people to develop data-driven solutions.

Discussion themes: Python for AI/machine learning, v2.7/v3.x.

Catch up with Sebastian Raschka here: @rasbt

Mike Driscoll: Could you give a little background information about yourself?

Sebastian Raschka: Of course! My name probably already gives it away, but I was born and raised in Germany, where I lived for more than two...