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One on One with Davin Potts: 4. How You Can Help With Your Favorite Open Source Project Without Being an Expert

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and have been posting them one chunk at a time. In this post, Potts gives a few tips on how anyone who uses open source projects like Python can contribute in an important way without being an expert.


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One on One with Davin Potts: 1. On Becoming a Core Python Committer and the Tools Used to Build Data Science

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and will post them up one subject at a time. In this first post, we discussed the wide variety of programming languages and tools in use right now for data science projects, and how he became a core Python committer.


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Vertica Hears From UMass Computer Science Professor

On December 7, Vertica employees were lucky enough to hear a talk from UMass Boston Computer Science Professor Dr. Duc A. Tran. Dr. Tran spoke to us about a distributed storage project he is working on with his students.


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I Love DIY Projects

I love DIY projects. I love watching the YouTube videos, scouring the web for advice from others, and learning new skills. The innovation and creativity that’s out there is amazing! […]


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Best Practices for VerticaPy

Tune in to learn then adopt the most popular and helpful machine learning techniques in Vertica. Hear directly from the inventor of VerticaPy, a powerful Python library that exposes scikit-like […]


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Announcing Vertica Version 11

Vertica Unified Analytics Platform version 11 delivers GA support for Docker containers and Kubernetes, advanced machine learning and time series capabilities, and increased analytical performance.




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Introducing the Vertica 10 Unified Analytics Warehouse

Derive greater and faster analytical insights by unifying data siloes across cloud and hybrid environments. As the industry’s highest performing Unified Analytics Warehouse, Vertica 10 offers a range of new […]


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One on One with Davin Potts: 6. Advantages of In-Database Machine Learning

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. This is the final installment of the discussion. It was a lot of fun catching up and talking shop. In this final interview post, we talked about some of the advantages of doing machine learning inside a database that a lot of folks don’t know about.