Working on a few things this week. In addition to keeping up with the Hadoop course I mentioned in a previous post, I’m working on prepping some data to create visualizations related to commuting in Michigan. This is publicly available data and I’ll post more about it soon. In addition, I stumbled across a website called kaggle.com. If you’re interested in the topic of big data analytics, you should take a look at their site. They host worldwide competitions, many…
You can get a sense of my background in the previous post: I’ve done a lot of work developing analytics and processes to help businesses get better, faster, and more efficient results. This was usually in a garden-variety enterprise IT landscape: data warehouses, production systems, and PC-based tools. Now I’m working on learning how companies make sense of the massive quantities of data never before available to help make better decisions. I’m taking a series of online courses from UC San…
Since I got my first real job, I’ve always gravitated to the most technical aspects of the work. Over time, as my aptitude and skills became clearer I moved into roles that were specifically in the technical realm and I always felt comfortable there. Being really good at something is a surefire way to fall in love with doing it, and that’s what happened to me. In the beginning, there was no Internet. PC’s were connected via a LAN and…