Rodrigo Agundez

Hogan Assessment

01 Feb 2022 by Rodrigo Agundez / study

Went over the Hogan assessment to recognize my strengths and weaknesses with the intention of shaping my teams and environment to suit my strengths and start a path to address my weaknesses.

Director of Data Science @ adidas

01 Jul 2021 by Rodrigo Agundez / work

Director of Data Science at adidas, responsible for all Trading Sciences global products with focus on our digital channels.

Director Development Experience

01 Jul 2021 by Rodrigo Agundez / study

Took an intense 6 months course to become inspirational and inclusive leader in my day-to-day role. DDE focus on enabling the execution of strategy and driving a winning culture by building and leading high performance teams.

Lead Data Scientist @ VodafoneZiggo

01 Feb 2020 by Rodrigo Agundez / work

Lead Data Scientist of a team of 14 people in VodafoneZiggo.

Career coach for development of people and leadership skills

01 Jan 2020 by Rodrigo Agundez / study

Hired a career coach to focus on the development of my people and leadership skills.

Lead of Artificial Intelligence @ Talpa Network

01 Oct 2019 by Rodrigo Agundez / work

I started and built the AI department in the company.

Keras: multi-label classification with ImageDataGenerator

31 Jan 2019 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

Multi-label classification is a useful functionality of deep neural networks. I recently added this functionality into Keras' ImageDataGenerator in order to train on data that does not fit into memory. This blog post shows the functionality and runs over a complete example using the VOC2012 dataset.

Collaborator / committer @ Keras

15 Jan 2019 by Rodrigo Agundez / work

Part of the core development team of the keras preprocessing component of the Keras framework.

Big Data Expo 2018: Deep Learning, the Engine of the AI Revolution

05 Oct 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

We all remember the boom of Internet companies in the late 90s, then in the late 2000s mobile companies took center stage and have been dominating ever since. A new type is taken the spotlight, this is the era of AI companies, and like it has been before there are two options: adapt or fade away.

Data Lead @ Schiphol Royal Group

01 Oct 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / work

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as the data lead for Schiphol Royal Group.

Big Data Expo

12 Sep 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / talk

Presented deep learning, the engine of the AI revolution.

Code breakfast transfer learning

28 Jun 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave a free 3 hour workshop about transfer learning.

Spark Summit + AI 2018

07 Jun 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

This week I was at the Spark+AI Summit 2018 conference in San Francisco. This post is a summary of my experience and highlights of the talks I attended.

Spark + AI Summit

06 Jun 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / talk

Presented Operation Tulip: Using Deep Learning Models to Automate Auction Processes.

Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning

02 Jun 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / study

Took a 2 day course of Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning in San Francisco.

Dutch Data Science Week

29 May 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave an advanced deep learning workshop with a focus on RNNs and LSTMs.

PyData Amsterdam

26 May 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave a deep learning introductory workshop to Keras.

Deep learning to Deloitte

20 May 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave a deep learning training to Deloitte with a focus on RNNs.

Elitist shuffle for recommendation systems

13 May 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

In today's high pace user experience it is expected that new recommended items appear every time the user opens the application, but what to do if your recommendation system runs every hour or every day? I give a solution that you can plug & play without having to re-engineer your recommendation system.

How Deep Learning Will Change Customer Experience

07 May 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

Co-author of article written by Ronald van Loon about the impact of Deep Learning on the customer experience

Python masterclass to Restart Network

02 May 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave a nonprofit Python masterclass to Restart Network which supports refugees in The Netherlands.

Advanced deep learning to bol.com, Delhaize and AHOL group

01 Apr 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave an advanced deep learning training to bol.com, Albert Hijn, Delhaize and AHOL group.

Multi-threshold Neuron Model

09 Mar 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

Inspired by a new biological scientific research, I propose, build and train a Deep Neural Network using a novel neuron model.

Data Science with python to ATOS

01 Mar 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave the 2 days data science with Python training to ATOS consulting group in Belgium.

Lead Data Scientist for Nspire project @ KPN

01 Mar 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / work

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a lead data scientist for the Nspire project in KPN.

Code breakfast deep learning edition

17 Jan 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / workshop

Gave a free 3 hour workshop about deep learning.

From PhD to GDD

09 Jan 2018 by Rodrigo Agundez / talk

Presented for Master Science, Business & innovation students the story and experiences of going from a PhD to data scientist for GoDataDriven.

Advanced Python Mastery

04 Dec 2017 by Rodrigo Agundez / study

Took the advanced Python mastery week course with David Beazley in Chicago.

Advanced Deep Learning

02 Dec 2017 by Rodrigo Agundez / study

Took a 2 day course of advanced deep learning with Python & Tensorflow in San Francisco.

"I Pity the fool", Deep Learning style

05 Nov 2017 by Rodrigo Agundez / tech

With deep learning applications blossoming, it is important to understand what makes these models tick. Here I demonstrate, using simple and reproducible examples, how and why deep neural networks can be easily fooled. I also discuss potential solutions.