Drew and James have a long show this week. First, they cover some ideas on leveling the playing field with remote and local employees. Drew went to a ton of meetups, so there is an excellent breakdown of each day. We have lots of links for this episode, so check the show notes! The interview this week is with Kiri Nichol - small yellow duck. The interview starts at 0:42:36.
Kiri Nichol is a data science junky! When she is not organizing her Kaggle competitions, she is competing against others. She has a Ph.D. in Physics and has a real passion for problem solving.
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Meetups for the week of May 16th
Monday, May 16th
- EdTech (UBC Studios, 0110 - 2329 West Mall) 1:00 PM
- Git Help! & 0-Tech (Decentral, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Kids Code Jeunesse (Launch Academy, #300 - 128 West Hastings) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Ideas Meeting (Creative Coworkers, 343 Railway St. Unit 10) 7-10pm Note: Must have Arduino and pay a $20 membership fee to join.
- VanLUG (SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings) 7:00 PM
- Polyglot Reading Group (Unbounce, #400 - 401 W. Georgia) 6 PM
Tuesday, May 17th
Wednesday, May 18th
- Linux Desktop (Decentral, 436 W Pender) 4:30 to 6:30 PM
- Scala Reading Group (Hootsuite, 5 East 8th) 5:30 to 6:30 PM
- Pluralsight Study Group (PNI Digital Media, 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Vancouver Rust (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W Georgia St) 5:30 to 7:30
- Ecommerce Shootout (Unbounce, 400 401 W Georgia) 6:00 PM
- OpenLate (OpenDNS, Suite 600 675 West Hastings buzzer# 0500) 6:00 PM
- Brainstation (Brainstation, 410, 1110 Hamilton) 6:00 to 8:00 PM
- VanCG (Network Hub, 3rd Floor, 422 Richards) 6:30 PM
Thursday, May 19th
Friday, May 20th
- Pixel Crafters (BrainStation, 410 1110 Hamilton) 11:30 AM Price: $25.00
- The VanHackathon (Spring Activator 211 East Georgia) Friday 5:00 PM - Sunday 8:00 PM Street Price: CAD10.00
Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect
