Finding Community in Data Science with Reshama Shaikh, key scikit-Learn sprint organizer

Now that we’ve covered how open source works, we’re looking to pull back the curtain and see who’s actually contributing. In part 2/2 of our series on open source, we sat down with Reshama Shaikh, a statistician and key organizer of scikit-Learn sprints, to learn about the ups & downs of open source contributing, as well how a Sprint in Nairobi benefits Fortune 500 companies in the US. 

Reshama Shaikh is an independent data scientist/statistician and MBA with skills in Python, R and SAS. I worked for over 10 years as a biostatistician in the pharmaceutical industry.

Further Reading: 

Stack Overflow Developer Survey; Open Source Contributors: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-profile-_-contributing-to-open-source

How to Organize a Scikit Learn Spring by Reshama Shaikh: https://reshamas.github.io/how-to-organize-a-scikit-learn-sprint/

Reshama Shaikh’s Website: https://reshamas.github.io/

Contributing to scikit-Learn: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/contributing.html

Gitter scikit-Learn: https://gitter.im/scikit-learn/scikit-learn

scikitLearn Mailing List: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn

Join Dataiku’s Paris scikit-Learn sprint this January: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Paris-scikit-learn-Sprint-of-the-Decade