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Petefine

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About Petefine

Data Scientist in London, working for Recycleye

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48760559

    Recycleye | Data Scientist | London | 2-3x/week ONSITE | Mid to Senior level Recycleye and CP Group build recycling plants, and are forming a new team to provide data analytics and…

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    Comment #24295083

    This might be a problem, but if you're careful to make use of transparency, axis scaling and random jitter (for integer or categorical values), the occlusion issue can be overcome.…

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    Comment #20181955

    For me the readability of tidyverse code is crucial. I like pandas and use it daily, but often it requires deciphering to understand what is happening, especially regarding indexin…

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    Comment #18385940

    Do you have a forum or suggestions tool at all? Fivetran has been amazing for our new datawarehouse and we're very pleased with the service, but there are a few little (non-bug) th…

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    Comment #17939912

    Beyond Compare has a tabular data mode, where you set the key columns and it presents the differences in a nice interface. Works well for me. http://www.scootersoftware.com

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    Comment #17810554

    They're weren't claiming that when you searched bing, they did a google search immediately in the background. Rather, they claim that they were collecting google's ranking and usin…

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    Comment #15435660

    Could you link to your research here please? That would help us advise on routes to publication.

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    Comment #14095904

    Hi, I'm afraid we're not able to do that for this position, sorry.

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    Comment #14023618

    15gifts | Junior Data Scientist | Brighton, UK | ONSITE http://www.15gifts.com 15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgi…

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    Comment #11203515

    http://www.15gifts.com - ONSITE Brighton UK DATA SCIENTIST 15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, EE, Sky and…

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    Comment #11013072

    http://www.15gifts.com - ONSITE Brighton UK DATA SCIENTIST 15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, EE, Sky and…

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    Comment #10186134

    this worked fantastically for me. I didn't actually expect to use the site - I thought I'd just glance at it and close. But it was so slick that before I really noticed what was ha…

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    Comment #9544348

    When I follow [1], IE8's numbers are (from Jan) 2.56%, 2.61%, 2.13%, 2.19%, 2.26%. So they don't look to have grown at all. If anything they've declined a little, although this may…

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    Comment #7830332

    http://www.15gifts.com/jobs - Brighton/London UK - Data Scientist 15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, Oran…

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    Comment #7680008

    http://www.15gifts.com - Brighton/London UK - Data Scientist 15gifts' decision-engine technology powers some of the largest corporations in the UK including Virgin Media, Orange, T…

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    Comment #6311951

    15 Gifts - London, Brighton ( http://www.15gifts.com ) 15gifts is changing the way people shop online through a unique and intelligent decision engine platform - learning from the …

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    Comment #6137334

    There certainly is an overlap. But for me, the difference between a Data Scientist and an Analyst is that the Data Scientist uses the data to build stuff (eg a recommendation engin…

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    Comment #5762329

    strangely, it's currently still there if you zoom in a bit though.

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    Comment #5436437

    There are more details available here https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun .

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    Comment #5436407

    Agreed. This course (my first into to functional programming) makes it hard to go back to working in Java. Things that can take a lot of code, such as grouping, filtering and aggre…

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    Comment #4800424

    In my experience as a merchant, disputes can be very time sensitive (i.e. travel cancellations). On one hand, finding out about a misunderstanding from you (rather than a chargebac…