Data science is not just a job
- operationalization vs. exploration
- empiricism
- democratization, “citizen” data science
The role and future of open source
- Two types of OSS
- Software isn’t just code
- Crowdsourcing innovation
What comes next?
- Hardware innovation
- Desegregating computing
- The coming age of inference engines
Peter Wang is a co-founder of Anaconda, Inc., where he is CTO and leads the Open Source and Community Innovation team. He has been developing commercial scientific computing and visualization software for 20 years. He has extensive experience in software design and development across a broad range of areas, including 3D graphics, geophysics, large data simulation and visualization, financial risk modeling, and medical imaging.
As a creator of the PyData community and conferences, he devotes time and energy to growing the Python data science community and advocating and teaching Python at conferences around the world. Peter holds a BA in Physics from Cornell University.