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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 1Q2017

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2017. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Microservices vs. Service-Oriented Architecture, by Mark Richards, O'Reilly, 2016. Copy provided by O'Reilly. The Path to Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning, by Conor

New Book Review: "Embedding Analytics in Modern Applications"

New book review for Embedding Analytics in Modern Applications: How to Provide Distraction-Free Insights to End Users, by Courtney Webster, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: In her introduction to this book, Webster comments that on any given day people use more than 20 different software applications, but while more

New Book Review: "A Whirlwind Tour of Python"

New book review for A Whirlwind Tour of Python, by Jake VanderPlas, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Yes, this book provides a bit of a whirlwind tour of the Python language, not unlike the cycling race depicted on the cover. The author starts by commenting on how the appeal

New Book Review: "Picking a Python Version"

New book review for Picking a Python Version: A Manifesto, by David Mertz, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: As someone relatively new to Python, this book perfectly matched my need to understand the currently available 2.x and 3.x series of the programming language. However, Mertz also discusses

New Book Review: "In Search of Database Nirvana"

New book review for In Search of Database Nirvana: The Challenges of Delivering Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing, by Rohit Jain, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Many potential readers of this book will likely dismiss it as being too theoretical in nature to be

Personal Reading List: 4Q2016

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2016. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) The Path to Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning, by Conor Doherty, Steven Camiña, Kevin White, and Gary Orenstein, O'Reilly, 2016. Copy provided by MemSQL. Picking

New Book Review: "The Last Mile of Analytics"

New book review for The Last Mile of Analytics: Making the Leap from Platforms to Tools, by Mike Barlow, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: Probably the best book I have read regarding the road ahead for the analytics space, despite its small size. In reference to the title, Barlow

Workshop Notes (August 27, 2016): End-to-End Streaming ML Recommendation Pipeline (Spark 2.0, Kafka, TensorFlow)

1871 August 27, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM From the promotional materials: END-TO-END STREAMING ML RECOMMENDATION PIPELINE WORKSHOP Learn to build an end-to-end, streaming recommendations pipeline using the latest streaming analytics tools inside a portable, take-home Docker Container in the cloud! DATE Saturday, August 27, 2016 TIME 9:

New Book Review: "Future Value Generation"

New book review for Future Value Generation: Do You Need to Create New Business Logics?, by Daniel Egger, CreateSpace, 2016, reposted here: Copy provided by author Daniel Egger. According to Egger, most companies today strive to react with quick solutions when challenged by change, and at the same time, strive

New Book Review: "Making Sense of Stream Processing"

New book review for Making Sense of Stream Processing: The Philosophy Behind Apache Kafka and Scalable Stream Data Platforms, by Martin Kleppmann, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: My first exposure to author Martin Kleppmann was at his Strange Loop 2014 talk in St Louis, Missouri entitled "Turning the