Shower Thoughts – Blog

Introducing ETL Markup Toolkit (EMT)

TL;DR – I developed an open source toolkit for writing Spark-native ETL using configurations in a highly sub-scriptable and transparent...

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...

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