Catherine Nelson
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Catherine Nelson
@catnelson.bsky.social
Writing books, thinking about Python and data science.

Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists"
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My latest book, “Software Engineering for Data Scientists”, was published by @oreilly.bsky.social in April this year. It’s a guide for data scientists looking to improve their coding skills, and it’s deliberately friendly. You can buy a copy here: www.amazon.com/Software-Eng...
Software Engineering for Data Scientists: From Notebooks to Scalable Systems: Nelson, Catherine: 9781098136208: Amazon.com: Books
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I really enjoyed this! Thank you @mkennedy.codes for inviting me on the show.

Our conversation included refactoring notebooks, testing notebook-derived code, and changing your mindset when you're moving to production code.

There's also a book giveaway - see the show notes to enter!
June 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My #PyConUS talk, "Going from Notebooks to Scalable Systems" is up on YouTube - check it out if you'd like to hear about best practices for moving from Jupyter Notebooks to modular, robust Python scripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4hy...
Going From Notebooks to Scalable Systems - Catherine Nelson
YouTube video by PyCon US
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May 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
#PyConUS is my favorite conference. It's such a positive community. I really enjoyed meeting so many people at my talk and afterwards signing books.

Thank you to @anvil.works for hosting my book signing and to @oreilly.bsky.social for providing copies of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists"!
May 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And if you weren't able to attend my talk, here's the slides and code: github.com/catherinenel...

Book signing - 2pm today at the Anvil booth in the expo hall
May 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm heading to #PyConUS! I'm excited to present a talk on best practices for moving from Jupyter notebooks to Python scripts that scale.

And thanks to the awesome folks at @oreilly.bsky.social I have 10 copies of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists" to give out. I'll share details at my talk.
May 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
So many good books by the authors on this list! Check it out:
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December 13, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Time to show off your... place where ideas go before they get to a laptop stickers
November 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Hello Bluesky! A quick introduction/reintroduction and update from me. I’ve been in data science for a while but now I’m exploring the space between data science and software engineering. I’m a Pythonista, author and public speaker.
November 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM