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The "big data" technology landscape is changing really, really fast. One consequence of this is that it's hard to find good training resources since they become outdated so quickly. I wanted to get some baseline comfor…
I have a confession to make. I love podcasts. I have a semi-unhealthy addiction to podcasts. I get most of my twitter follows and book recommendations from podcasts. They've become an essential part of my daily information die…
A quick note on the comments section of the blog. I had been using a free version of the Disqus plug-in to manage comments on my posts. Unfortunately Disqus recently shifted to a new policy and will now force users of the free…
I try to experiment with a lot of different technologies. I’ve found that having experience with a diverse set of concepts, languages, libraries, tools etc. leads to more robust thinking when trying to solve a problem. If you do…
After finishing Walter Isaacson’s well-known 2014 book The Innovators, I was struck by a few things. First, I realized just how little I knew about the history of computing before I read this book. Charles Babbage and the Differ…