Tim Burns
An Open Charter - But Definite Goals
Photo by Filip Mroz on Unsplash The Owl Mountain Institute is an organization born of the collaborative minds of a Clinical Psychiatrist...
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Tim Burns
Downloading CMS Data
Downloading CMS Data is a bit tricky. The base site is here: https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/docs After beating my head against the...
Tim Burns
A Great Overview of ML Algorithms
Azure has put this together a great overview of use cases for ML Algorithms. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/algo...
Tim Burns
I Want a Future of Decency, Equity and Real Social Justice
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Today is the day I begin a journey to use public health data in ways to make a better world. How can I to...
Tim Burns
Chvrches Live on KEXP
Listening now to a great set by Chvrches live on KEXP. I learned of Chvrches when my daughters performed Make them Gold at the Trinity...
Tim Burns
The CLV Algorithm in Healthcare
Machine Learning in Healthcare is a rich field, but it is challenging. Much of the data is highly protected. Generally, the data is...
Tim Burns
Is the CIA Corporate Sabotage Guide an Urban Legend?
I've seen a number of references to this document in popular business trash that circulates on LinkedIn. It's rather funny, because...
Tim Burns
From Existentialist to Let's go Exploring - My Philosophical Evolution Since Age 20
I’ve been an amateur philosopher for all my life. I’ve dabbled in Atheistic Existentialism, and Zen Buddhism, and now I’m trying to...
Tim Burns
Three Literacy Tests for Hiring Data Engineers
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Data is the foundation of the IT profession and testing potential hires for their data literacy is crucial....
Tim Burns
Keep Initiatives in Mind when Practicing Agile
Building Solutions with Agile I practice Scrum in my current role, every day. It is a very good Scrum/Agile team structure and we...
Tim Burns
Drizzt Do'Urden is my Hero
I am currently on book five on the Drizzt Do'Urden novels and I love these books. Drizzt Do'Urden is a Drow elf who forsakes the evil...
Tim Burns
Keep things Simple and be a Better Data Engineer
Generally one thinks of the Data Engineers as those in the background, creating database schemas, writing SQL code, working on...
Tim Burns
My YTD Top Album Dashboard
Hey, I figured out how to embed my KEXP Dashboard on a web page. Here is the top 10 played artists for 2022. Today the featured artist...
Tim Burns
Martin Luther King Day
Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash Martin Luther King Day is the holiday we reflect on America: On its history, its present, and its...
Tim Burns
KEXP John Richards Top 5 for 2021
John Richards is my favorite DJ at KEXP, and here are the top 13 artists by frequency of 2021 for his show. 1. David Bowie - Changes -...
Tim Burns
The War on Drugs
I'm super excited about the new album by the War on Drugs: I Don't Live Here Anymore. The first single, Living Proof, has been out since...
Tim Burns
Jeff Lederer and the Eightfold Path
I branched out this week on my dashboard and added a few new filter items. KEXP DJ Favorites In so, I discovered another new artist: Jeff...
Tim Burns
New Band on my Radar: Nation of Language
My article was published in Geek Culture on Medium last week, and I'm pleased with how it turned out, even if it didn't get many hits or...
Tim Burns
New Music Through Better Data Analytics
The Author rooting for his non-Seattle Team At some point in my adult life, embarrassedly early, I might add, I realized I am not cool...
Tim Burns
Oh My, Look at the Time
So I didn't want to end up here, but every BI tool I tried to visualize the KEXP data ended up in a dead-end and Tableau was my last...
