On Real Data Science and the Future of the Business Analyst
What is “real data science” anyway? tl;dr: most data scientists at Facebook are business analysts and that’s perfectly fine One...
Data Science and Product Management are like Chocolate and Peanut Butter
“Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!” “You got peanut butter in my chocolate!” “Delicious!” So goes the old...
Using Machine Learning to Classify the Quality of Wine
Using an open-source dataset, I’ve written up a Jupyter notebook below that explores the performance of several commonly used decision...
Recognizing the Limits of Visualization
Visualization (viz) is an incredibly hot topic in the business analytics/data science (DS) world right now. In every job description,...
Gear Review: Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 (HHKB2)
There’s a term in engineering called a “1% Solution”. 1% solutions solve a problem that only 1% of the population...
Choosing Your Data Science Architecture
We data people love our architecture. We obsess over it. Every time Apache announces a new top-level project, we fawn...
What’s a Hadoop, Anyway?
To Hadoop and Beyond is a series dedicated to exploring the basics of distributed computing as it stands today, and to...
Understanding the Core of Hadoop: the MapReduce Algorithm
To Hadoop and Beyond is a series dedicated to exploring the basics of distributed computing as it stands today, and to...
Structuring Your Data Science Workflow
Now What? Congratulations, you’ve successfully recruited and hired a few data scientists, positioned them in the right place in your...
Academic Profiles for Data Science
If you’re interested in Data Science (DS) as a field and have read enough job postings, you start to pick...