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Data AnalysisPosted onOctober 30, 2022

The Over-Optimization of Everything

When I started my career in “data” back in 2010, the world was in the midst of an analytics revolution. The concept of “big data”…

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Data AnalysisPosted onApril 25, 2021April 25, 2021

Breaking into Analytics – Finding Your Data Community

Recently, several people reached out to me asking how they can either break into a data role for the first time or make the jump…

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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 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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CollectionsPosted onOctober 30, 2019February 26, 2020

Free Data Science Books

A collection of free books to help you learn data science, or touch up your skills. Topics include data science foundations, statistics, Python, R, deep…

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CollectionsPosted onOctober 30, 2019

Public Datasets for Data Science

Looking for public datasets for your next data science or machine learning project? Here are some of the best. AWS Public Data Sets Bureau of…

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Data SciencePosted onSeptember 24, 2019November 18, 2019

Learning Data Science For Free

Thanks to community, university and corporate supported efforts, learning about data science has never been easier or cheaper. In fact, as long as you’re not…

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Data SciencePosted onAugust 28, 2019December 9, 2019

Why it’s Difficult to Evaluate Data Science Candidates

I’ve hired a number of data scientists, data engineers and analysts over the years and interviewing and evaluating potential data scientists has proven to be…

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