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Max Woolf: Data Science at BuzzFeed and AI Content Generation

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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How I Learned Python and Data Science

Twitter, Reddit and Facebook were some of the first data science projects he ever did. He learned Python so he could scrape data from public sources such as Twitter's free API that no longer is the case. After working at Apple for four years, his skills weren't growing enough to move on technically. So he tried to get a job at BuzzFeed where he has been since 2013.

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