Akshay Gupta
Akshay Gupta is a Data Scientist and Python developer at Capital One, where he works on building libraries that cover a variety of functions from developer enablement to predictive modelling. Akshay's background is in mathematics & statistics, and he has been in the field for 7 years.
Sessions
07-11
14:20
30min
Picking your battles: when is a compiled language like Rust beneficial for Data Scientists?
Akshay Gupta
Over the past year, there has been an increase in the number of libraries that leverage Rust and pyo3 to significantly increase performance. What's the catch? In this talk, we will discuss how the Data Science team at Capital One has been thinking about the power of Rust-backed Python and whether the benefits justify the complexity.
Playing Nice: Scientific Computing Across Programming Languages
Ballroom