Disneyland, 2019
November 25, 2019
During one of our many hikes, a few friends were saying they’d love to go down to Southern California for a Disneyland trip. Continue reading...
Seattle
November 20, 2019
Our friends Hannah and Andrew were getting married in Seattle, which gave me a great excuse to go and explore the city. It was my first time there, so we did some touristy things, and we spent a good amount of time hanging out with friends from NU who had also traveled there for the event. I didn’t want to be the weirdo with the camera, so there are no photos of the wedding itself. More...
Alaska
September 6, 2019
This was all around an amazing and ridiculous trip, half work, and half fun. Continue reading...
KDD 2019
September 6, 2019
I had the opportunity to go to KDD in Anchorage this past August. Since my team has incrementally moved our systems away from Python as our main language, I asked my manager whether it’d make sense for me to go to PyCon again (see my notes from 2016 and 2018), or if there’d be a more relevant conference that I should look out for this season. She suggested a few options, and KDD was one of them. I didn’t know much about it, but its focus on analytics meant that there would surely be pieces that were relevant to my day to day, and since it was Apple’s first year sponsoring it, there was extra motivation to attend. Continue reading...