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New Book Review: "The Software Architect Elevator"

New book review for The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise, by Gregor Hohpe, O'Reilly, 2020, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. While the title of this book makes use of the term "software architect", connotations will likely arise

New Book Review: "Burn-In"

New book review for Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, by P. W. Singer and August Cole, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, reposted here: Promotional pre-publication advance reading copy provided by Amazon. The back cover of this novel provides the following synopsis: "America is on the brink of

New Book Review: "Julia for Beginners"

New book review for Tanmay Teaches Julia for Beginners: A Springboard to Machine Learning for All Ages, by Tanmay Bakshi, McGraw-Hill, 2019, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. As the author mentions in the preface to this book, the content he provides here is intended to work towards his goal

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

New Book Review: Rethinking Strategy

New book review for Rethinking Strategy, by Steve Tighe, Wiley, 2019: Copy provided by author Steve Tighe. The author mentions in his introduction that he feels this is the book he needed to read on his first day as foresight manager at Foster's. "As I sat at

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

New Book Review: Machine Learning at Enterprise Scale

New book review for Machine Learning at Enterprise Scale: How Real Practitioners Handle Six Common Challenges, by Piero Cinquegrana and Matheen Raza, O'Reilly, 2019, reposted here: Copy provided by Qubole. This freely available O'Reilly text discusses six common challenges the authors have identified with respect to

Manuscript Review: "Project Decisions"

An editor for a publisher reached out to me via LinkedIn on January 8, 2019 with an opportunity to provide input on the second edition of a book in exchange for a flat fee. I was given 1 calendar month to complete the review, and I submitted my feedback on

New Book Review: "Applied Predictive Analytics"

New book review for Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst, by Dean Abbott, Wiley, 2014, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. Abbott is sure to discuss his philosophy and approach at the outset. "This book describes the predictive modeling process from the perspective of

New Book Review: "An Introduction to Machine Learning Interpretability"

New book review for An Introduction to Machine Learning Interpretability, by Patrick Hall and Navdeep Gill, O'Reilly, 2018, reposted here: Copy provided by Dataiku. The content of this freely made book provides an introduction to the perceived need for machine learning interpretability, and how satisfaction might be fulfilled