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Wes mckinney at odsc boston 2015 dataframes the extended cut
Wes McKinney is an American statistician, data scientist and businessman. He was the CEO and founder of technology startup Datapad. He is the main author of the open-source Pandas package for data analysis in the Python programming language, and has also written the textbook Python for Data Analysis on the topic. He worked as a software engineer for Cloudera following their acquisition of Datapad in 2014. He is now a software engineer at Two Sigma Investments.
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- Wes mckinney at odsc boston 2015 dataframes the extended cut
- Odsc west 2015 wes mckinney ibis scalable python analytics on hadoop and sql engines
- Early life and education
- Career
- Media coverage
- References
Odsc west 2015 wes mckinney ibis scalable python analytics on hadoop and sql engines
Early life and education
McKinney graduated from MIT with an S.B. in Mathematics in 2007. He is on leave from the Duke University Ph.D program in Statistics.
Career
From 2007 to 2010, he researched global macro and credit trading strategies at AQR Capital Management. From 2010 to 2012, he served as a Python consultant to hedge funds and banks while developing Pandas. In 2012 he co-founded Lambda Foundry Inc.
McKinney co-founded Datapad in January 2013. He was funded by Accel Partners and others. Datapad was acquired by Cloudera in September 2014. He is currently working on an open-source project called Ibis, incubated within Cloudera Labs, aiming at using Python for big data problems.
Media coverage
McKinney has been interviewed by VentureBeat and others. He frequently gives talks to the Python community.
