Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the MinneBOS 2019 data science and analytics conference in Boston. The folks at MinneAnalytics…
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If you don’t yet have a data science team, you may have moments of panic feeling that you’re falling behind. It’s true, data science and…
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If you’ve been in Data Engineering, or what we once referred to as Business Intelligence, for more than a few years you’ve probably spent time…