Episode 26: Small Yellow Duck

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.

Links

• Remote 1 Year


• Retail Zipline Job


• Try Git on Github


• Try Git on Code School


• CensusMapper.ca

Interview Links

• Wiki Art


• Kiris Kaggle Competition

Meetups for the week of May 16th

• Women In IT Week

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

• Brainstation (410, 1110 Hamilton)　12:00 PM - 1:00 PM


• Tech Talent Meetup (BCTIA Innovation Hub, 887 Great Northern Way) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM


• Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6:00 PM

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

• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM


• Learn Data Science (Bench, 353 Water Street) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Red Academy (200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM


• PixelCrafters (LightHouse Labs, #300 - 128 W Hastings) 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM


• Code & Coffee (Mobify HQ #300 - 948 Homer St) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM


• DevOps Vancouver (Sophos, 580 granville) 7:00 PM

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