Matthew Powers
Powers is a tech evangelist at Coiled.
He used Spark / PySpark for 6 years and is now help devs understand when Dask is a better fit.
He's written two books, has a popular blog, and regularly contributes to open source codebases.
In a past life, he passed all three CFA exams and worked in finance.
Presentations
5 Reasons Parquet files are better than CSV for data analyses
Thursday October 28 5:30 PM – Thursday October 28 6:00 PM
Data Processing at Scale
Friday October 29 2:00 PM – Friday October 29 4:00 PM in Workshop/Tutorial I