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Wes McKinney
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Founder @kennsoftware, GP @ComposedVC, AI @posit_pbc
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    Wes McKinney
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    Feb 17
    New post: "The Mythical Agent-Month" With coding agents, we are writing code faster than ever. But hands on keyboards was never the bottleneck, a lesson from Fred Brooks's 1975 classic that we keep painfully relearning. Will it be different now, or will we run into the same
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    The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney
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    Wes McKinney
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    Sep 2, 2022
    The first copies of Python for Data Analysis 3e are rolling off the presses! Hope everyone enjoys the updated content
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    Wes McKinney
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    Apr 19, 2018
    Big news today! I've founded Ursa Labs, a development lab for open source data science, powered by @ApacheArrow. I'm teaming up with @hadleywickham and @rstudio to make it possible
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    Announcing Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science – Wes McKinney
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    Wes McKinney
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    Jan 23, 2022
    Exciting news: "Python for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition" is coming later this year. There is now an open access web edition at wesmckinney.com/book/. The first 6 chapters (and appendices) are available now with the rest coming soon. Thanks to @quarto_dev for making this possible!
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    Python for Data Analysis, 3E
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    Wes McKinney
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    Dec 31, 2019
    pandas 0.1 was released on Dec 31 2009 pandas 1.0 is about to be released pandas 10 in 10 years? (2nd try :) )
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    Wes McKinney
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    May 18, 2022
    I've finished editing from technical review for "Python for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition" — the Open Access version online now has all chapters available: wesmckinney.com/book/ Also available to pre-order in print on Amazon: amzn.to/3DyLaJc
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    Wes McKinney
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    Aug 24, 2018
    I dislike open offices, 9-5 schedules, and synchronous comms (eg Slack). I do my best work in private, on my own schedule, and without concern about interruptions. It's no surprise I love hacking on airplanes! Glad others feel the same way
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    Jason Fried
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    Aug 24, 2018
    Generally, nobody at Basecamp really knows where anyone else is at any given moment. Are they working? Dunno. Are they at lunch? Dunno. Are they picking up their kid from school? Dunno. Don’t care. Escape from the Presence Prison —> m.signalvnoise.com/the-presence-p…
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    Wes McKinney
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    Sep 17, 2017
    Days later, my jaw is still on the floor about this graph
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    Wes McKinney
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    Aug 12, 2019
    I'm happy about Python's growth but it's a bummer to see articles fail to explain why the language experienced a major growth inflection point starting in 2012-2013. It wasn't only because Python was more readable than Perl
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    Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming...
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    Wes McKinney
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    Jan 3, 2019
    Santa brought twins! Thanks to @nvidia for donating two DGX workstations (each 20-core Xeon, 256GB RAM, 4x Tesla V100) to Ursa Labs for @ApacheArrow development. 2019 is going to be an exciting year in Arrow-land
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    Wes McKinney
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    Dec 15, 2017
    Rudely interrupted today by some dude in a Blue Bottle in SF to tell me that working on data science tools is a waste of time because feature engineering and ML is already "completely automated" and the tools are "good enough" #wat
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    Wes McKinney
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    Mar 20, 2018
    I shudder to think about the role we've played in making this kind of stuff easier for people to do
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    Wes McKinney
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    Feb 28, 2019
    You're god damn right they can!!
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    Wes McKinney
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    Feb 8, 2021
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