Richard Nichol

Richard (Richie) and Doug worked together at a procurement software company. Doug became CEO not long after Richie was hired as a data engineer to help the company categorize millions of products.

After leaving the company, Doug built Managed Functions (https://managedfunctions.com), an integration/machine learning platform that uses Python and Jupyter notebooks to automate business processes. Richie went on to complete a Master of Data Science at the University of Sydney, Australia, and is now working as Senior Data Scientist for Faethm (http://www.faethm.ai).

books by Richard Nichol

Machine Learning for Business

  • December 2019
  • ISBN 9781617295836
  • 280 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Simplified Chinese

Machine Learning for Business teaches business-oriented machine learning techniques you can do yourself. Concentrating on practical topics like customer retention, forecasting, and back office processes, you’ll work through six projects that help you form an ML-for-business mindset. To guarantee your success, you’ll use the Amazon SageMaker ML service, which makes it a snap to turn your questions into results.