Max ShronInterview
Data scientist (Shron LLC, ex-OkCupid)
Adapted from Max Shron's interview on Uses This, published 23 March 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I've just slimmed down to one of the new 13" MacBook Airs.
To keep myself pain-free I've got a Fellowes wrist-rest, an Evoluent vertical mouse, and a Hag Capisco chair.
Communication
Coding & Development
iPython is my other shell, though as my projects have gotten more complex I've been using it less.
Storage
Other
For the most part, people know me because of my previous job as the Data Scientist at OkCupid.
Everything happens in the shell except for browsing the web or playing games (may I recommend Machinarium if you haven't played it?).
Ditto for pandas, a beautiful way to get R's-DataFrame like functionality in Python.