Paco Nathan

Paco Nathan
R&D, O'Reilly Media; Advisor for Amplify Partners; with 35+ years tech industry experience, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. Known as a "player/coach", with core expertise in data science, natural language processing, machine learning, distributed systems, cloud computing. Co-chair JupyterCon. Cited in 2015 as one of the Top 30 People in Big Data and Analytics by Innovation Enterprise.

ORCID iD icon orcid.org/0000-0003-3167-1539

engagement info: goo.gl/SXc6Jd

upcoming events:

recent talks:

Big Data Spain 2017 - Human-in-the-loop Interview with Wes McKinney at JupyterCon NY 2017 Big Data Spain 2016 keynote - Has AI Arrived?

misc:

The Intertwingularity is near: When humans transcend print media, O'Reilly Media (2018-04-24)
Interpreting Machine Learning Models, DataScience.com (2018-03-28)
JupyterCon 2018, NYC August 21–25, Project Jupyter blog (2018-03-15)
Jupyter Pop-up coming to Boston on March 21, O'Reilly Media (2018-02-28)
"Huberta Berlaimont interview", Medium (2018)
"Confident Personalities vs. Confidence Intervals, in the era of AI", Medium (2017)
Paco Nathan: «Estoy a favor de una renta cubierta por las tasas de las empresas» La Voz de Galicia (2017-11-19) by María Cedrón
JupyterCon NY 2017 video interviews, O'Reilly Media (2017-08-24)
"Humans in the Loop" Domino Data Lab (2017-08-16)
"Paco Your Bags And Go To JupyterCon" Partially Derivative (2017-06-28) by Chris Albon
nbtransom PyPi (2017-06-25): Jupyter notebook support for human-in-the-loop design pattern, where people and machines collaborate on documents.
Paco Nathan: «Hay mucha gente hablando con robots por Internet, pero no lo saben» La Voz de Galicia (2017-05-27) by María Cedrón
"Why self assessments improve learning" O'Reilly Media (2017-05-09): introduction of formative assessment into online learning
PyTextRank PyPi (2017-03-13): Python implementation of TextRank algorithm by Mihalcea, et al.
"虚幻世界 / Xūhuàn shìjiè" Synecdoche (2017-02-25)
"Learning, Cider, and Performance Art with Paco Nathan" Partially Derivative (2017-02-21)
"Sweet Home Al-Obama" Synecdoche (2017-02-12)
"How Do You Learn?" O'Reilly Media (2016-09-19) with Mike Loukides
"Hylburt Speys" Synecdoche (2016-08-22)
"Beyond the AI Winter" Synecdoche (2016-07-03)
Probabilistic Data Structures in Python O'Reilly Media (2016)
"Learn alongside innovators, thought-by-thought, in context" O'Reilly Media (2016)
"#ASAPcultures" Medium (2016)
«Cinco preguntas de Big Data para Paco Nathan» Paradigma (2015) by Rubén Martinez
"Spark and Databricks change the data playing field" | #sparkinsight SiliconANGLE (2015) by Heather Johnson, John Furrier, George Gilbert
"Top 30 People in Big Data and Analytics" Innovation Enterprise (2015)
Intro to Apache Spark O'Reilly Media (2015)
Exsto Spark Exercises: text analytics, graph analytics, etc. (2015)
"Interview with Paco Nathan, Machine Learning Expert, and GalvanizeU Academic Advisor" (2015)
Apache Spark Developer Certification Program Databricks + O'Reilly Media (2014)
Apache Spark Training Resources Databricks (2014)
Distributed Development Stack O'Reilly Media (2014)
"Computational Thinking": Just Enough Math webcast O'Reilly Media (2014)
"Whitepaper: Agricultural Systems + Data Outlook 2014", The Data Guild (2014)
"The Evolution of Big Data Platforms and People", DC2 blog (2014)
"Exclusive Paco Nathan Interview", KDnuggets (2014) by Anmol Rajpurohit
"Is Data Scientist the right career path for you? Candid advice", KDnuggets (2014) by Anmol Rajpurohit
"Learning Apache Mesos" O'Reilly Media (2014-01-15)
"Apache Mesos: Open source datacenter computing" O'Reilly Media (2014-01-08)
Exelixi GitHub: a pure Python framework based on Apache Mesos, for GA/GP at scale
"Here's why Python and Scala aren't old news in the world of data science" VentureBeat (2013-12-03) by J. O'Dell
"Learn how to use Apache Mesos" Quick Start Tutorials for Spark, Hadoop, Chronos, Marathon, etc.
"Play Framework Grid Deployment with Mesos" Typesafe engineering blog
"Pattern: PMML for Cascading and Hadoop" KDD (2013): paper with Girish Kathalagiri presented in the PMML workshop
"Hadoop, Mesos, Cascading, Scalding, Cascalog and Data Science", All Things Hadoop (2013) with Joe Stein
Cascading.Pattern GitHub: machine learning libraries for Cascading, translating PMML to Hadoop apps
Cascading for the Impatient GitHub: a progressive series of introductory sample apps for Cascading
City of Palo Alto Open Data GitHub: Cascading and Cascalog recommender apps based on CoPA Open Data
"Grokking Big Data with Paco Nathan", Follow The Data (2012)
Liber 118: The Battle of Oakland, Liber 118 Press (2012)
"Magic and the Corporation", Expanding Mind with Erik Davis (2012)
TextRank GitHub: Java implementation of TextRank algorithm by Mihalcea, et al.
Cascading.SampleRecommender GitHub: an example social recommender, based on stock Tweets
Getting Started on Hadoop GitHub: Hadoop streaming in Python, to analyze Enron email data set
"Hadoop Summit Speaker Interview: Paco Nathan"
"A Methodology For Cloud Computing Architecture" (2008-06-29)
Systems and methods for an autonomous avatar driver (2007-03-06)
Systems and methods for managing a persistent virtual avatar with migrational ability (2006-11-16)
OpenSIMS, SourceForge: integrates OSS tools for security management plus real-time analysis visualization
"What Countermeasures Really Means", O'Reilly ONLamp (2004)
"Dangerzone: Linux Top Gun", Austin Chronicle (2002-09-06)
"The Corporate Body: Liber 118 U.S. 394", Signum (2002)
"Ninkasi: Ritual Brewmaking" (2001-09-15)
"Liber 118 U.S. 394, non-fiction archives"
"Corporate Metabolism", Tripzine #6 (2001)
"Chasing Egregors", The Scarlet Letter, vol VI #1 (2001-03)
"FringeWare Chronology", Laughing Bone
"Albert is top talking computer", BBC News (1999-01-28)
"Robert Anton Wilson in Austin", Church of the SubGenius (1998-12-05) --
[ mic derp, FringeWare+SubGenius PR ]
"Bag Day": nationwide anti-corporate protest of Barnes & Noble, FringeWare+RTmark (1998-11-23)
JFRED Chatbot Server chatbot platform used for FringeWare eCRM, for BBC live televised Turing Test, etc.
"FRED, Milton and Barry: the evolution of intelligent agents for the Web", Advances in intelligent systems (1997)
"The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts", Survival Research Labs (1997-03-28) --
[ SRL site, FringeWare+SubGenius PR ]
"Postcards from the Fringe", Austin Chronicle (1997)
"nEuroRancid", The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998 (1995)
"NLRB v. Motorola: A Narrow Interpretation of the Mutual Aid or Protection Clause of the National Labor Relations Act", Bill Hylen, 26 Ariz. St. L.J. 253 (1994)
"Jackson Wins, Feds Lose", Wired (1993)
"Timewave Surfer Dudes", bOING-bOING (1992)
LoTR: The Two Towers video game, Interplay (1992)
Mondo 2000, bOING-bOING, and 1990s cyberpunk subculture