What is a Tipsy Bear?
This site originally started as a beer brewing blog. We wanted to do data science projects, and we figured it was an awesome name, thus here we are! We like bourbon, data science, and long walks on the beach. And making really cool things.
The Folks of Tipsy Bear
Allen Leis
grew up playing the son of two theatre nuts who met in a mental hospital. Despite these auspicious origins, he is reasonably sane, and has crafted web experiences for clients including the DOD, U.S. Senate, and State Department. He loves cats and brunettes (but in different ways), and can often be found at the bocce field. Allen embarked on his Data Science adventure at Cobrain, helping to build a graph-based recommendation system.
Benjamin Bengfort
is a data scientist with a passion for massive machine learning involving gigantic natural language corpora, and common sense artificial agents. Ben believes that data is a currency that can pave the way to discovering insights and solve complex problems. He is also currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at University of Maryland College Park.
Jenny Kim
is a senior software engineer who builds and manages data pipelines and distributed computing efforts. She has previously worked as a web developer, consultant, and technical architect. Jenny holds an MS in Information Systems and Technology at the George Washington University of Business. In her free time, Jenny volunteers at local film festivals, procrastinates on planning her wedding, and relaxes with her family and pet Shih Tzu, Yoshi. She is currently based in the Bay Area, in California.
The Webpage of Tipsy Bear
This simple website was built quickly because of the hard work of a lot of people who develop open source projects. We want to thank them for making it possible for us to have a website while we do data science projects. In return, our projects are also open source! If you would like to use the tools that we're using, then here are the links back to our sources.
Hosting
Github hosts all of our code and also provides hosting for this site via Github Pages. This page is built when we push a commit into our repository with Jekyll, a pretty cool static page blog generator.
Disqus does all the comment handling and discussion moderation for us, which is pretty cool since it's for free. Our contact form (and any other form you may see on this website) is powered with Simple Form.
Design
It's probably pretty obvious, but this page was built with Bootstrap, which we love for our web applications (we're not really designers). The icons come from two places: Font Awesome and Glyphicons.
The Metro D.C. wallpaper we use in our jumbotron on the front page is from KULfoto. The bear silhoutte that we're using as our tiny logo is from Vector-magz.com.
I hope that's everyone- thank you guys all so much!
Copyright and Permissions
We write open source software, and our code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. This is a permissive license that we hope you will use well to build amazing things. You can use it in your code with or with attribution (we appreciate it, though) for any kind of use (commercial or otherwise), and you can even patent code (good luck) with our code in it.
As for the content of this site, except where explicitly mentioned, we reserve all rights to the copyright. We would like to say things whose sole attribution will be to ourselves. If you'd like to use anything, just get in touch, I'm sure we'll say yes.