Rebecca Bilbro

Dr. Rebecca Bilbro is a data scientist, Python and Go programmer, teacher, speaker, and OReilly author.

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As co-founder and CTO of Rotational Labs, an intelligent distributed systems company, she specializes in machine learning optimization and API development in distributed data systems. She earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her research centered on communication and visualization practices in engineering. In addition to teaching in the Data Science program at Georgetown, Dr. Bilbro is an active contributor to open source software and is the creator and maintainer of the popular Yellowbrick library, an open source Python package that hooks into the popular scikit-Learn API to support visual feature analysis, model selection, and hyperparameter tuning for data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Expertise Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Visualization, Big Data Methods & Technology, Software Engineering