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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

Media Query Source: Part 25 - Unite.AI (US digital magazine); Erik interviewed by Unite.AI

* Unite.AI (US digital magazine) * Q&A with CEO of Unite.AI * My career in software engineering & data * Tooling has converged between these spaces My responses ended up being included in the Interview Series at Unite.AI (April 21, 2020), a San Francisco based media firm "designed

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 23

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 18, 2019: Media: Software changes so rapidly, but do developers think about the implications of this in the back of their mind while developing? For example, do they lose motivation when they think about how whatever they're developing

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

Media Query Source: Part 20

The responses I provided to a media outlet on October 8, 2019: Media: Attributes to Look for in a Coder Beyond Coding Skills Gfesser: Note: I use the term "developer" throughout my response, since "coder" brings certain connotations likely not intended by the questions, and "

Media Query Source: Part 19 - AngelList Talent (US digital magazine); Scrum: A primer on adaptive techniques

* AnglelList Talent (US digital magazine) * Scrum methodology primer * Products evolve, so no deadlines or rigid plans * Story points relative to specific dev team My responses ended up being included in an article at AngelList (November 6, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above

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

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

Amazon re:MARS 2019 Day 2-4 (June 5-7, 2019)

Amazon re:MARS 2019 Aria Resort & Casino Day 2-4 (June 5-7, 2019) From the promotional materials: KEY2: Opening remarks & Innovation Spotlights (Day 2 / 9:00am – 11:30am) Amazon keynote led by Jeff Wilke, CEO of Worldwide Consumer. Keynote to include Innovation Spotlight talks by: 1) Tom Soderstrom, IT