I was featured in Peadar Coyle’s interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I’m not really a data scientist.

Erik Bernhardsson

Erik Bernhardsson, former head of music recommendations at Spotify and author of Luigi, shares career reflections in an interview format. He discusses the two camps of data science (business insights vs. production ML engineering), the importance of backend skills for ML practitioners, his views on big data and Hadoop, and advice for younger professionals: write lots of code, build prototypes others can use, and focus on communicating ideas rather than perfecting algorithms.

Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson