Vincent Warmerdam

My name is Vincent, AskMeAnything[tm]. I have been evangelizing data and open source for the last 7 years. You might know my from tech talks where I attempt to defend common sense over hype in data science.

I’m a self taught data person currently living in the Netherlands. In the past I’ve been:

• on the front page of reddit
• a ditigal nomad with an amazing postcard
• a preferred Rstudio training partner
• co-founder and co-chair of PyData Amsterdam
• blogger over at koaning.io
• calm coder over at calmcode.io
• a data/open source evangelist with a track record of speaking
• co-creator of some open source packages; evol, scikit-lego, whatlies, clumper
• a youtuber (sortof) for the spaCy project
• involved with many data projects; from bayesian recommenders to deep learning to data mining

Currently I work as a Research Advocate at Rasa where I collaborate with the research team to explain and understand conversational systems better. On behalf of them I maintain a youtube playlist called the algorithm whiteboard where I explain common topics in (NLP) algorithms.