Ned Letcher

@ned.sh

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Data science, AI/ML, analytics, visualisation. Naarm/Melbourne @thoughtworks, #dataBS, #Python, #NLP, #DuckDB, & assorted whimsical miscellania

A selfie of me looking quizzically excited, in the poster hall of NeurIPS 2025, standing under the Deep Learning section sign hanging from the roof
A slide from a talk titled 'Exporting the results of our analysis' with a three duck.sql() calls that each have a COPY TO DuckDB SQL query to export a Python DuckDB Relation to different file formats: CSV, PARQUET, and JSON. and then two more indicating parameters that can be applied for customizing the output of JSON and CSV
The front cover of the book Getting Started with DuckDB: A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows, by Simon Aubury and Ned Letcher, published by Packt The cover has a photo of some contemporary architecture: a large sports pavilion with reflective windows and a long wavy roof line that looks like a sine wave (it has nothing to do with DuckDB)