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Media Query Source: Part 25 Unite.AI (US digital magazine)Q&A with CEO of Unite.AIMy career in software engineering & dataTooling has converged betwee

My responses ended up being included in the Interview Series at Unite.AI (April 21, 2020), a San Francisco based media firm "designed to offer detailed analysis and news on the latest advancements in machine learning and AI technology", including all things data. In this case, the entire

New Book Review: Disruptive Analytics

New book review for Disruptive Analytics: Charting Your Strategy for Next-Generation Business Analytics, by Thomas W. Dinsmore, Apress, 2016: The author mentions at the outset that analytics industry leaders have been struggling, for reasons apparently not associated with product quality, but with disruption. Powerful forces are rearranging the industry: rapidly

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 1

The CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy contacted SPR to build out a data platform. While the core platform was to be built by the corporate IT organization run by the CIO, the goal was that this platform would be used by other organizations outside corporate IT as well to

Media Query Source: Part 24

The responses I provided to a media outlet on January 30, 2020: Media: We hear a lot about data transformation these days and most companies are going through some stage of data transformation. Since data tends to be the domain of the IT group, it can be easy to assume

Media Query Source: Part 22 TechTarget (US digital magazine)AWS data lake & data warehouse optionsLake Formation, Glue & Redshift (Spectrum)Use cases

My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (November 14, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The responses I provided to a media outlet on October 18, 2019: Media: What are the best ways to

Media Query Source: Part 21

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 4, 2019: Media: Technical debt is the added cost that's incurred when software is developed quickly with little or no regard to quality and must be reworked to reach its intended objectives. Looking for experts who can answer

New Book Review: Evolving Data Infrastructure

New book review for Evolving Data Infrastructure: Tools and Best Practices for Advanced Analytics and AI, by Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan, O'Reilly, 2019: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This text is all about O'Reilly's investigation into understanding how firms are making use

Media Query Source: Part 18

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 30, 2019: Media: Hadoop hasn't lived up to its early promise, and the fire sale of MapR to HPE earlier this month is the latest sign of that. What's next, then, for big data? Can Hadoop

Implementing Databricks for Data Science and Engineering Teams: Part 2

This post is the second part of a soon to be published case study I wrote about a recent client project implementing Azure Databricks with my team for data science and engineering teams (the first part can be found here). The analytics arm of a large midwestern U.S. insurance

Implementing Databricks for Data Science and Engineering Teams: Part 1

A case study I wrote about a recent client project implementing Azure Databricks for data science and engineering teams was recently published (April 9, 2019). This write-up is the first of a two part series covering the first half of a client engagement with my team. (The original post can