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DuckDBT: Not a database or a dbt adapter but a secret third thingDuckCon #32023-06-29
Adapter glues DBT to DuckDB so DBT runs against local DuckDB instances and object stores without standing up a cloud warehouse; it supports Iceberg, SQLAlchemy…
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The COVID Scenario Pipeline: High Stakes Data ScienceMLconf Online 20202020-11-05
A volunteer team spins up a reproducible pipeline that turns the Johns Hopkins SEIR code into docker images, profiles and speeds it to run in minutes, and then…
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Data Labeling as Religious ExperienceMLconf SF 20192019-11-08
Describes building a spam classifier for Slack invites that fails when using invite-acceptance as the label and reveals the comical result that VP of…
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Josh Wills, Head of Data Engineering, SlackMLconf SF 20172017-11-10
Model building time collapses from months to days using XGBoost, embeddings, and emerging neural architecture search tools, enabling seismic oil imaging that…
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Several People Are Tuning: Data and Machine Learning atMLconf SF 20162016-11-11
Slack has two years of public data, a newly formed machine learning team (six months) and a seven‑person data engineering team that builds a modern stack on…
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Why The Best Minds Of Our Generation Are Thinking About Click AdsData By the Bay 20162016-05-16
Argues that ad tech created the best data tooling and culture but is now mostly an automated machine war; identifies the real data problem as change not scale…
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DBTB INT Josh Wills rData By the Bay 20162016-05-16
Says working as director of data engineering at Slack and argues that tech advantage now often comes from a defensible data advantage held by companies like…
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Josh Wills, Director of Data Science, Cloudera @ MLconf SEAMLconf Seattle 20152015-05-01
Argues that feature engineering needs an IDE and shows a working prototype: the Exhibit project layers a Supernova schema (one record per entity with arrays of…
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