The Vision
Rebecca Bilbro, Ph.D
Founder/CTO
Bio
A pioneer of the data science revolution in the early 2010’s, Dr. Rebecca Bilbro is an applied AI/ML engineer, teacher, and author who has worked across academia, industry, and the public sector.
Rebecca (aka @Elder_Data_Scientist) is co-creator of Yellowbrick, a Python library that integrates the scikit-learn and matplotlib APIs to support more convenient model diagnostics and steering.
As co-founder and CTO of Rotational Labs, Rebecca is motivated by a desire to unite the data science and engineering communities. She and her team help other companies leverage in-house domain expertise and data to build and deploy LLMs, data products, and services.
Rebecca earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her research centered on domain-specific languages within engineering.
Blog Posts Written by Rebecca
Welcome to the Age of PostSQL
Calling all programmers! It’s time to get a bit more curious about data storage, because we’re about to enter the age of PostSQL…
May 9, 2023
3 Trends that Will Disrupt Managed Services in 2023
If nothing else, the last year has brought the winds of change to the tech sector. From high-visibility layoff cycles at FAANGs and crypto companies, to turbulence in our social media infrastructure, to pop culture’s discovery of deep …
Dec 23, 2022
The Eventing Platform Landscape
Kafka and PubSub and Kinesis, oh my! Which eventing platform is best? In this post we’ll explore the three primary categories of eventing systems and understand their similarities, differences, and key use cases.
Sep 10, 2022
6 Things You Didn't Realize about Crypto
As a distributed systems company, we’ve had the privilege of speaking with dozens of vendors building crypto-adjacent solutions over the past few years. We’ve learned a lot along the way, especially about some of the key misconceptions that …
Jun 6, 2022
Why Developers Don't Translate The Docs
Stars, forks, likes, upvotes, downloads. In a world where user metrics rule, why don’t more technical projects translate their docs to reach more global users?
Oct 21, 2021
Why UX Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better
The things we make are not user-friendly by accident; we have to make them that way. And that’s hard. For most of the time people have been making things, we’ve been mainly concerned with making them user-friendly for just us. …
Jun 10, 2021
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