Benjamin Bengfort

Benjamin Bengfort

Benjamin Bengfort is a Data Scientist who lives inside the DC Beltway but ignores politics favoring technology instead. He is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Maryland where he studies machine learning and distributed systems. A professional Python programmer by craft, a data scientist by vocation, Benjamin's writing pursues a diverse range of subjects from Natural Language Processing, to Data Science with Python, to analytics with Hadoop and Spark. He is also a partner at District Data Labs, where he is currently developing open-source tools for visual diagnostics for machine learning and model management systems.

Presentations

Model Management Systems: Scikit-Learn and Django

Yellowbrick: Steering Scikit-Learn with Visual Transformers

On the Hour Data Ingestion from the Web to a Mongo Database