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Marcel Caraciolo

Marcel Caraciolo

Previous Experience in Education

  • Co-Founder of the brazilian educational social network called Atepassar.com. It focus on helping students to pass in the public exams to get a civil job. More over than 150 thousand students registered. (http://atepassar.com)

  • Co-Founder of the brazilian educational on-line platform PyCursos.com. It focus on teaching python and its applications around Brazil. More than 200 students already studied with us in several domains.(http://www.pycursos.com)

  • Co-Founder of the brazilian educational on-line platform Pingmind.com. It extends the PyCursos and teaches several domains besides Python such as Law, Medicine, Technology, etc. It still under development. (http://www.pingmind.com)

  • Teacher and Instructor of Python and Machine learning at local universities and companies.

  • Current position: Scientist Chief in those projects.

Past Speaking Experience

  • Speaker at Scipy Conference 2011, presenting my open-source project called Crab, a recommender system framework written in Python. (http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2011/)

  • Speaker since 2010 at the Brazilian Python Conference (PythonBrasil) with several talks about recommender systems and local communities. (http://www.pythonbrasil.org)

  • Speaker at the local community Pernambuco Python User Group (PUG-PE) as Senior Member. (http://pug.pe)

-- My Slideshare speakerdeck: http://slideshare.net/marcelcaraciolo

Open-Source Community

  • Developer and Maintaner of the recommender framework written in Python called Crab. (http://muricoca.github.com/crab)

  • Commiter of the Scikit-learn Project.

  • Open-sourced several libraries and projects. (http://github.com/marcelcaraciolo)

  • Maintaner of the AIMotion blog, a specialized blog in english about machine learning and artificial intelligence. (http://www.aimotion.blogspot.com)

Presentations

Powering Recommendations with Distributed Computing using Python and MapReduce