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Past Book Review (September 26, 2008): "DW2.0"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for DW2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems), by William H. Inmon, Derek Strauss, and Genia Neushloss, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008, reposted here: Awareness of this book arose following

Chicago Area Hadoop User Group (CHUG):Using HBase Co-Processors to Build a Distributed, Transactional RDBMS

Sears Holdings Corporation July 30, 2014: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM From the promotional materials: John Leach Co-Founder and CTO of Splice Machine with 15+ years software development and machine learning experience will discuss how to use HBase co-processors to build an ANSI-99 SQL database with 1) parallelization of

New Book Review: "Agile Data Warehouse Design"

New book review for Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema, by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto, DecisionOne Press, 2011, reposted here: Good step-by-step guide for capturing data warehousing requirements and building dimensional models from these requirements through modelstorming (data modeling plus brainstorming) with business

New Book Review: "Practical Machine Learning"

New book review for Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation, by Ellen Friedman and Ted Dunning, O'Reilly, 2014, reposted here: This work is a short, white paper sized text that walks the reader through practical aspects of machine learning recommendation, specifically for those who are new to this

New Book Review: "Star Schema"

New book review for Star Schema: The Complete Reference, by Christopher Adamson, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2010, reposted here: For technologists looking for a thorough exploration of the traditional data warehouse star schema, nothing compares to this book. Other reviewers are correct that although works by Ralph Kimball are classics in

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 5

My last post in this series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section mentioned that I walked the Membership Development Chair through the visualizations of my latest monthly presentation to the team, partially in preparation for his request of me to

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 4

This post is the fourth in a series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section, a new position that I filled in September 2012 after the membership development team realized that ongoing data analyses and reporting was needed around declining enrollment.

New Book Review: "Data Science for Business"

New book review for Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, O'Reilly Media, 2013, reposted here: As the authors discuss in the preface to this text, the content presented here provides a conceptual foundation

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 6

The last post in my series on Liquibase, an open source database change management tool, mentioned that I had been contacted by a startup that was looking to potentially work on a commercial release. A couple months after meeting with the cofounder and CTO of the firm as part of

New Book Review: "Customer Data Integration"

New book review for Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth (SAS Institute Inc), by Jil Dyche and Evan Levy, Wiley, 2006, reposted here: After discussing customer relationship management (CRM), master data management (MDM), and CDI, the authors discuss the challenges of data integration and the far-reaching