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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

Media Query Source: Part 17 - ITPro Today (US digital magazine); Are programming languages key to the evolution of machine learning?

* ITPro Today (US digital magazine) * Reaction to Facebook Chief AI Scientist * Python's popularity is relatively recent * "Best" programming languages often don't win My responses ended up being included in an article at ITPro Today (June 27, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange,

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

Jumpstarting an AWS Database Product Selection Effort (Published January 10, 2019)

A case study I wrote about a recent client project jumpstarting an AWS database product selection effort was recently published (January 10, 2019). While all database service offerings were considered, we ended up focusing on Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora using additional AWS services along the way to prove out

New Book Review: "High Performance Spark"

New book review for High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark, by Holden Karau and Rachel Warren, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: The authors state in their preface that "this book is intended for those who have some working knowledge of Spark, and may

New Book Review: "Spark: The Definitive Guide"

New book review for Spark: The Definitive Guide, by Bill Chambers and Matel Zaharla, O'Reilly 2018, reposted here: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Over the past few months, I've had the chance to work through three related books in the following order: "Spark: The

New Book Review: "Practical Hive"

New book review for Practical Hive: A Guide to Hadoop's Data Warehouse System, by Scott Shaw, Andreas Francois Vermeulen, Ankur Gupta, and David Kjerrumgaard, Apress, 2016: Shaw comments about the moment he experienced when he first copied a file into HDFS and created a Hive table on top

Media Query Source: Part 16 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Data silos: now and forever?

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Data silo consolidation challenges & risks * Tight coupling between apps & data * Differing definitions of seemingly same data My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (November 13, 2018). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image

Lowe's Event Log Issues

Looks like the Lowe's event log is having some issues: I received a delivery notice an hour ago for a new range that was already delivered 6 months ago. At first I thought that perhaps this was an inadvertently sent duplicate event, but in checking my own log

Media Query Source: Part 14

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 9, 2018: Media: Customer-centricity, customer journeys, data as an asset. In a lot of cases, it's just lip service. The real reason companies aren't keeping their promises traces back to the data they have and don&