Written by erik schrama to show how useful data science is to engineers. You should follow him on schrama.io
I work for a major energy company and we have every platform for data science you can think of. But what if you're a self employed engineer and you want to be able to run Jupyter Notebooks in the cloud to be able to collaborate with a small team (2-3 people)? I will show how you can set up a Virtual Machine on AWS for free and host a Jupyter Notebook instance on your personal website where people can log into from where ever they are.
Ever had the urge to check for messages on your phone while refueling your car? You know that's probably not a very good idea as your mobile phone, in a cloud of gaseous vapour, could trigger an explosion. I took out my phone (could not resist) recently at a local unmanned fuel station while topping up and to my surprise the pump stopped. I put away my phone and restarted fueling. Then I took it out again to see if the pump would stop again and indeed, the pump stopped again. The only way to make that work, is if the security camera would have spotted the phone and a signal was sent to the pump. This is a perfect example of machine vision. Let me explain how that works.
