Andrew Blance

Andrew is a data scientist at Waterstons, an IT consultancy. He co-hosts a podcast called Brains on the Outside, where he pitches silly, wholesome and fun business ideas. Once, Durham University deemed him sensible enough to make him a Doctor of particle physics (and kinda machine learning and quantum computing). He can run 5km pretty fast and thinks modern Star Trek isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

Andrew Blance's Sessions

MLOps and ML-Flops: going from dev to prodSQLBits 2023

Going from an machine learning model trained on your laptop in a notebook called “trainmodelV1Final_FINAL (1).ipynb” to a system ready to deploy is difficult. However, MLOps (a set of principles to prepare your model for prime time) is here to help! This talk is an introduction to all the elements you need to get your code production-ready - CI/CD, dev/UAT/prod, pipelines, and more! We'll walk through system diagrams, with a focus on Azure, but the takeaways will all be platform agnostic. Make sure your model deployment isn’t an ML-Flop!