Nick Becker

Nick Becker is a senior technical product manager on the RAPIDS team at NVIDIA, where his efforts are focused on building the GPU-accelerated data science ecosystem. Nick has a professional background in technology and government. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked at Enigma Technologies, a data science startup. Before Enigma, he conducted economics research and forecasting at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the central bank of the United States.
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RAPIDS 24.12 Introduces cuDF on PyPI, CUDA Unified Memory for Polars, and Faster GNNs

RAPIDS 24.12 introduces cuDF packages to PyPI, speeds up groupby aggregations and reading files from AWS S3, enables larger-than-GPU memory queries in the... 8 MIN READ
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Harnessing GPU Acceleration for Multi-Label Classification with RAPIDS cuML

Modern classification workflows often require classifying individual records and data points into multiple categories instead of just assigning a single label.... 4 MIN READ
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Faster Causal Inference on Large Datasets with NVIDIA RAPIDS

As consumer applications generate more data than ever before, enterprises are turning to causal inference methods for observational data to help shed light on... 4 MIN READ
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NVIDIA RAPIDS 24.10 Introduces Accelerated NetworkX with Zero Code Change, Updates for UMAP and cuDF-Pandas

The RAPIDS v24.10 release takes another step forward in bringing accelerated computing to data scientists and developers with a seamless user experience. This... 8 MIN READ
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Even Faster and More Scalable UMAP on the GPU with RAPIDS cuML

UMAP is a popular dimension reduction algorithm used in fields like bioinformatics, NLP topic modeling, and ML preprocessing. It works by creating a k-nearest... 12 MIN READ
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NVIDIA CUDA-X Now Accelerates the Polars Data Processing Library

Polars, one of the fastest-growing data analytics tools, has just crossed 9M monthly downloads. As a modern DataFrame library, it is designed for efficiently... 3 MIN READ