Project Spotlight: Event Recommendation in Python with Artem Yankov

Last Updated on June 7, 2016

This is a project spotlight with Artem Yankov.

Could you please introduce yourself?

My name is Artem Yankov, I have worked as a software engineer for Badgeville for the last 3 years. I’m using there Ruby and Scala although my prior background includes use of various languages such as: Assembly, C/C++, Python, Clojure and JS.

I love hacking on small projects and exploring different fields, for instance two almost random fields I’ve looked at were Robotics and Malware Analysis. I can’t say I became an expert, but I did have a lot of fun. A small robot I built looked amazingly ugly but it could mirror my arms motion by “seeing” it through MS Kinect.

I didn’t do any machine learning at all until the last year when I finished Andrew Ng’s course on Coursera and I really loved it.

What is your project called and what does it do?

The project is called hapsradar.com and it’s an event recommendation site focused on what’s happening right now or in the near future.

I am a terrible planner of my weekends and I usually find myself wondering what to
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