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Truth Revisited

Back in November 2009, during my then annual visit to the RSNA trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago, I came across a slogan on display in the Cerner Corporation exhibit which read "Single Source of TruthTM". As a consultant, I was surprised that such a

Workshop Notes (February 1, 2017): IBM dashDB Local MPP Proof of Technology

Hyatt Center IBM Technical Exploration Center February 1, 2017 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM From the promotional materials: IBM dashDB Local MPP Proof of Technology IBM dashDB Local is a next-generation data warehousing and analytics technology for use in private clouds, virtual private clouds and other container-supported infrastructures. It

New Book Review: "RESTful Web API Design with Node.js (Second Edition)"

New book review for RESTful Web API Design with Node.js (Second Edition), by Valentin Bojinov, Packt Publishing, 2016, reposted here: Practical starting point for designing and developing REST services using Node.js, supporting frameworks such as Express and Passport, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. Unlike many technical books

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

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: "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