David Mertz Author

David Mertz, Ph.D. is the founder of KDM Training, a partnership dedicated to educating developers and data scientists in machine learning and scientific computing. He created a data science training program for Anaconda Inc. and was a senior trainer for them. With the advent of deep neural networks, he has turned to training our robot overlords as well. He previously worked for 8 years with D. E. Shaw Research and was also a Director of the Python Software Foundation for 6 years. David remains co-chair of its Trademarks Committee and Scientific Python Working Group. His columns, Charming Python and XML Matters, were once the most widely read articles in the Python world.