Data science for fun and profit
I recently crossed one-hundred subscribers on my YouTube channel. It's a small accomplishment when compared to the dizzying views and subscribers the top YouTubers see daily. There are channels and …
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The year has ended and now we look ahead to 2019 with hope and fear. Hope that the new year brings us closer to ideal health, happy relationships, and growing wealth; fear that the uncertainty and …
A vision of the near future The year is 2022 and you just finished a workout your personal (digital) trainer from Total Lyfe Transformations. The workout was designed just for you. This service …
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Washington DC is one of the recipients of Amazon's new HQ2s. With this decision comes mixed feelings for me and other locals. I believe in growth. Growth will get us the to the cities of the future …
What is the current state of data products and what's their future? Data products are applications or services whose core business rests on aggregation, insight, prediction and/or display of …
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning …
Mature professions develop frameworks for how practitioners should behave. These frameworks provide guidelines and standard operating procedures for practitioners. They establish the set of values …
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I wasn’t always a data scientist. Before becoming the person I am today, data scientist at a startup, I worked as a consultant. Consultant is even too mighty of a title, I was a data analyst. …
Stack Overflow rolled out the results of their annual 2018 survey. Over 100,000 developers participated in the survey making it a comprehensive view of software development at this moment in time, …
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To convince a human you’re a human you need to have some edge. At least, that’s what the NY Times reported in this piece on the latest generation of chatbots. Gone is the notion that talking robots …
