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Dr Kerry Parker

@kaparker.bsky.social

✨ Physicist ➡️ Data Science ➡️ Data Engineering ✨ Subscribe to my newsletter: kaparker.substack.com ✨ Find out more: kaparker.com

80 Followers  |  128 Following  |  24 Posts  |  Joined: 04.11.2024  |  1.9653

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Check out my latest newsletter including the final day of ML books humble bundle & my reflections on @pydatalondon.bsky.social!

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16.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're joining us can't wait to see you there!

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04.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Unleash your inner data aficionado at PyData London 2025, 6-8 June at Convene Sancroft, St. Paul’s!

We have 3 top flight keynotes lined up for you this year from @jayalammar.bsky.social, Leanne Kim Fitzpatrick and Tony Mears.

Just 17 days left. Book your tickets now!
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20.05.2025 13:15 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Call for Proposals – PyCon UK 2025 PyCon UK Friday 19th September to Monday 22nd September 2025, CONTACT Manchester

🚨 Calling all master procrastinators! 🚨

Less than 1 week before the PyCon UK 2025 #CfP closes ⏳

Got a unique perspective or great idea for a talk, workshop or Young Coders’ event? Share it with us! 🐍

Find the submission info here 👉 buff.ly/PP9xos3

#PyConUK2025 #Python #development #manchester

05.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Thanks for sharing Libby! I’m on the organising committee so will feed this back to the team 🙂

02.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😢 where are you based?

01.05.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Kerry’s Homepage Personal website and blog of Kerry Parker. I write about all things data!

I've been having lots of fun refreshing my personal website this week!

I'm happy with the progress so far but still have more to add!

kaparker.com

29.04.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really looking forward to attending my first PyData London conference this year! The schedule looks fantastic!

Who else is going?

#dataBS #datascience #datasky #python

29.04.2025 19:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Data Insights #302 I've been meaning to send this for a while...

✨ The latest edition of my newsletter is out!

Covering lots of updates, launching my knowledge hub and featuring articles from Kirill Bobrov (luminousmen) and Vu Trinh.

Check it out and fill in the form to get involved!

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#dataBS #datasky

28.04.2025 08:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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After last year's sellout, PyData London 2025 is happening 6-8 June at Convene Sancroft, St Paul's.

Join us for 3 days of tutorials, talks and the chance to meet and hang out with a great group of data enthusiasts!

Tickets already selling fast--get yours here today! pydata.org/london2025

02.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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10 days until the first FIELD OF PLAY conference at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall!

We have a fantastic lineup of speakers sharing their expertise into how data, machine learning, analytics, and visualisation are transforming sports.

Tickets: www.fieldofplay.co.uk/tickets

#dataBS #datascience

08.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Call for Proposals — PyData London 2025

Have something great to share? Tell us about it at the PyData London 2025 conference!

Submit your talk or tutorial proposal here by 24 February.

pydata.org/london2025/cfp

27.01.2025 14:28 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Your Year, Your Way — The Ultimate Notion Planning Template Take control of your year with Planner v2.0

Check out my latest article:

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Read about my approach to planning, how my setup has evolved over time and how you can use this tried and tested template to achieve your goals.

02.02.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's easy to miss when merge does everything 😁 glad you found it helpful David!

28.12.2024 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for sharing JD!

28.12.2024 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kerry’s Data Insights | Kerry Parker | Substack Subscribe to read more about my data journey, my recommendations, tips & more! Click to read Kerry’s Data Insights, by Kerry Parker, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Newsletter incoming 🛬

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22.12.2024 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joining data in pandas: merge vs. join Understand the differences and never have to google it again!

✨ I'm excited to finally share a new article: Joining data in pandas: merge vs. join.

#dataBS #datasky #python

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22.12.2024 22:15 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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AI really doesn’t want anyone to play this Disney game…

05.12.2024 11:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great to meet you Niranjan!

08.11.2024 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow this looks like a lot of fun, thanks for sharing! Good luck with the new job!

06.11.2024 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Kaylea!

06.11.2024 10:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Elliot! The course is through Data Engineer Things - a DE publication that I applied to be a writer for

06.11.2024 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Mer! Great suggestion, I will keep that in mind!

06.11.2024 09:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Data Topic Survey

Getting reading to write more, I'd love to know what topics you like to read about. Take a moment to tick some boxes in the form to share your interests!

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05.11.2024 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Data Insights #202 Is Blue Sky the new place to be?

New SubStack post recommitting to sharing 9 articles by the end of 2024 & sharing this wonderful new community #dataBS

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05.11.2024 22:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Starting next week I will be joining a technical writing course and aiming to get those 10 articles written by the end of the year!

04.11.2024 10:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At the start of 2024, I set myself a goal to get back into writing this year and publish 10 articles... so far I've posted 1 (that I wrote back in 2021 and never published).

04.11.2024 10:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I work in #python and #pyspark and last year made the move from #datascience to #dataengineering and have loved learning new tools & techniques

04.11.2024 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi I'm Kerry 👋 I'm a Data Engineer based near Liverpool

04.11.2024 10:02 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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