Rebecca Bilbro
Employers on the program
- 2022–2025Rotational Labs2 talks
- 2019ICX Media, Inc1 talk
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- PyData
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
- Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)
- SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2025 | PyData Boston 2025 | PyData | speaker | Where Have All the Metrics Gone? as Rotational Labs How exactly does one validate the factuality of answers from a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system? Or measure the impact of the new system prompt for…Show lessHow exactly does one validate the factuality of answers from a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system? Or measure the impact of the new system prompt for your customer service agent? | Video |
| Nov 6, 2024 | PyData NYC 2024 | PyData | speaker | Data Secrets from a Platform Engineer | Video |
| Jun 14, 2024 | PyData London 2024 | PyData | keynote | Keynote- Dr. Rebecca Bilbro- Mistakes were made | Data science ten years in To honor ten years of PyData London, join Dr. Rebecca Bilbro as she takes us back in time to reflect on a little over ten years working as a data scientist. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 | PyCon US 2022 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Enhancing Code Collaboration with Conflict-Free Replicated Data TypesJupyter Notebook may be one of the most controversial open source projects released in the last ten years! Love them or hate them, they’ve become a mainstay of…Show lessJupyter Notebook may be one of the most controversial open source projects released in the last ten years! Love them or hate them, they’ve become a mainstay of data science and machine learning, and a significant part of the Python ecosystem. | |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2022 | Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) | speaker | Beyond Off-the-Shelf Consensus as Rotational Labs There have never been more commercial tools available for building distributed data apps — from cloud hosting services, to cloud-native databases, to…Show lessThere have never been more commercial tools available for building distributed data apps — from cloud hosting services, to cloud-native databases, to cloud-based analytics platforms. | Slides |
| May 12, 2021 | PyCon US 2021 (Online) | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | (Py)Testing the Limits of Machine LearningDespite the hype cycle, each day machine learning becomes a little less magic and a little more real. Predictions increasingly drive our everyday lives,…Show lessDespite the hype cycle, each day machine learning becomes a little less magic and a little more real. Predictions increasingly drive our everyday lives, embedded into more of our everyday applications. | Video |
| Apr 15, 2020 | PyCon US 2020 (Online) | PyCon (national Python conferences) | speaker | Democratic APIs: Balancing Hierarchy and Humanity in Pythonic Interface DesignBuilding an open source library is not unlike building a democracy. The citizens of the programming community can freely choose whether or not to use the…Show lessBuilding an open source library is not unlike building a democracy. The citizens of the programming community can freely choose whether or not to use the library, as well as how and whether to contribute back to the project. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 | SciPy 2019 | SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python) | speaker | Visual Diagnostics at Scale: More Informed Machine Learning with Large Datasets as ICX Media, Inc. | |
| Jan 9, 2019 | PyData Miami 2019 | PyData | speaker | Words in Space: A Visual Exploration of Distance, Documents, and Distributions for Text Analysis Machine learning often requires us to think spatially and make choices about what it means for two instances to be close or far apart. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deepyaman Datta | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Itamar Turner-Trauring | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Jacob Tomlinson | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Dharhas Pothina | 3 | — | 2024 |
| James Powell | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Tania Allard | 3 | — | 2024 |
| Anthony Shaw | 3 | — | 2022 |
| Dustin Ingram | 3 | — | 2022 |
| Łukasz Langa | 3 | — | 2022 |
| Reuven M. Lerner | 3 | — | 2022 |
| Patrick Deziel | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Benjamin Bengfort | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Allen Downey | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Deb Nicholson | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Eric Ma | 2 | — | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.