Chapter 20. Jake Vanderplas

Jake Vanderplas is a data scientist and the author of Python Data Science Handbook. He is a director of open software for the University of Washington's eScience Institute, where he works with researchers from a variety of disciplines. Previous roles at the University of Washington include director of research in physical sciences. Jake is a long-time contributor to the Python scientific stack and has worked on projects such as SciPy, scikit-learn and Altair. He regularly speaks at Python conferences in the US and has delivered keynote speeches at PyCon, PyData and SciPy. Jake is a visiting researcher at Google and writes a tech blog.

Discussion themes: Python in data science and astronomy.

Catch up with Jake Vanderplas here: @jakevd

Mike Driscoll: Could you tell me a little about your background?

Jake Vanderplas: I studied physics as an undergraduate and spent a few years after college working in the outdoors as an environmental educator and...