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PostgreSQL's pg_service.conf works like kubectl contexts: named profiles with tenant context baked in, so your coding agent never queries the wrong database.

Combine Senzing's entity resolution with spaCy's entity linking to build domain-specific Knowledge Graphs, shown on a Panama Papers investigation.

During this talk, I’ll be sharing tips to effectively “sell” dbt and the modern data stack, and insights on the current landscape of data transformation tools.

As a PC member for SofLiM24 (ISWC24), I have peer-reviewed my first research paper. The title: "Dynamic ontology serialization using ontology mapping paths".

Apply functional programming to pandas data engineering: method chaining, efficient row operations, and pipeline code that stays easy to maintain.

Explore using Argilla for Named Entity Recognition (NER) with football news datasets. Learn about Argilla's latest updates and methods to enhance NER tasks.

How Knowledge Graphs and LLMs strengthen each other: grounding LLMs in facts with Graph RAG, and using LLMs to automate Knowledge Graph construction.

Learn to set specific and challenging running goals using nomograms. This guide covers building and interpreting these tools to estimate your running fitness.

My perception of time has long been a subject of introspection. About to turn 30, I share a few things I've noticed about it over the years.

After 4.5 years at OneFootball and a year building OneFootball Labs from scratch, I resigned as VP of Engineering. How that decision came about.

Heroku ended its free plans. Your options for moving a hobby web app and its Postgres database: stay put, go serverless, a free hosted database, or a PaaS.

Louis Guitton, Principal Machine Learning Engineer for OneFootball: Scaling football news ingestion with Graph-based Natural Language Processing

How the OneFootball Data & Insights team used GitHub Classroom, built for teachers, to manage take-home coding assignments in engineering hiring.

What to look for in a code review, how to be a great submitter and reviewer, and a Python code review checklist, from years of running engineering teams.

In this post, I'll show you how to build a lightweight data catalog on top of dbt artifacts using Algolia.

In this post, I'll show you how to get started with dbt artifacts, and how to parse them to unlock applications valuable to your use case.

In this post, I show you how to train a model with trax, the very concise deep learning framework. I showcase text classification on the AG News dataset.

In this post I explain how to get visibility into your FastAPI application's performance for both development and production environments.

My notes from attending the 2020 Europython conference online. Typing, NLP, Data, Web and other trends.

Get a Kubectl Cheat Sheet to use Kubernetes and Helm in practice. Troubleshoot your deployment and your application. Updated regularly.

I play football for fun and track my games with Strava and a GPS watch. This post shows how to turn that data into a nice dataviz with Python.

Learn SPARQL in 5 minutes and query Wikidata at query.wikidata.org: the syntax, solved tutorial exercises, and ready-to-run queries on football and science.

I demo how you can use spaCy in 70+ languages by leveraging Stanza, a NLP toolkit by StandfordNLP. I give spaCy NER examples in Russian and Swedish.

Use AWS Athena as a serving layer for a backend service: query Athena and your data lake from Python, then optimise Athena for speed and cost.

A reusable docker-compose setup for an HTTPS Flask API: nginx, Flask and certbot in one stack, so SSL certificates renew without manual work on the server.

In mid 2019, a tript to Lyon made me realise the rise of electric scooters there. In total, 7 brands were offering the same service.

#PrettyCurious, a programme I helped build at EDF Energy in 2015: hackathons where girls aged 10 to 15 learn electronics, 3D printing and coding across the UK.

The overview of my Master's Mecatronics project where I lead a 25 people team in design and fabrication of a snakeboard robot.