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UncategorizedPosted onApril 27, 2020May 29, 2020

Taking Work Seriously, Not Personally

Sometimes I think that there’s nothing good about getting older. Workouts take just a bit more time to recover from, life’s responsibilities multiply, and you’re…

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Data EngineeringPosted onFebruary 17, 2020

Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive

Though the title of this post may sound obvious to some, it’s not how most organizations function. Many excellent software engineers are led to believe…

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UncategorizedPosted onFebruary 9, 2020

Nostalgic for the Future

He described his partners as “nostalgic for the future,” like many computer hobbyists of the day, and their discussions were frequently those of visionaries. Lee…

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Data EngineeringPosted onJanuary 15, 2020January 17, 2020

The Misunderstood Data Engineer

Data Engineers are a hot commodity in 2020, but it’s surprising how misunderstood they are. Are they a software engineer with a hyped up job…

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Data AnalysisPosted onJanuary 3, 2020January 3, 2020

Plotting Hours of Daylight in Python with Matplotlib

For those of us in the higher reaches of the Northern Hemisphere or the lower reaches of the Southern Hemisphere, winter means a severe lack…

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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 14, 2019November 15, 2019

Modular ELT

A while back, I wrote a post on why ELT is preferable to ETL with Amazon Redshift and other modern data warehouses such as Snowflake…

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Data AnalysisPosted onNovember 5, 2019December 9, 2019

Designing Data Teams

In the last few years, there’s been a noticeable shift at cutting edge organizations in how data teams are structured. No longer is data engineering…

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CollectionsPosted onNovember 2, 2019March 7, 2020

Free Data Science Courses

A collection of free online courses that cover data science, machine learning, and related concepts Linear Algebra – Mathematics – MIT OpenCourseWare CS50’s Introduction to…

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Data EngineeringPosted onOctober 31, 2019November 15, 2019

It Takes 3 Things to Get Value From Machine Learning

When I read about the $30 Million dollar series C funding raised by Crunchbase this morning, it reminded me of a common struggle I see…

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AnnouncementsPosted onOctober 30, 2019

DataScienceReads.com is now part of Data Liftoff

For the last several months, I’ve been maintaining two related web and Twitter properties, Data Liftoff and Data Science Reads. As time has gone on,…

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