A basic principle of data management: Don't move data unless you have to. Moving data is expensive and error-prone. Data Egress Cost:...

I listen to KEXP Live every chance I get. For an end-of-year visualization, I looked at a year-over-year comparison of all the artists...

I am browsing music festivals I'd like to attend in 2024. I work for Evolve.com which manages vacation properties and my search came up...

I maintain a project that tracks playlist data on KEXP Radio playlists and publishes the latest trending music to my Tableau public...

I recently contributed to a LinkedIn thread on Sprint Reviews in Agile. The Sprint Review is one of the many meetings in Scrum, and it...

Cancel as many meetings as you can. Schedule a meeting to set the stakes Use Slack or Teams to resolve blocks on the day of the meeting...

here are some blogs that caught my interest today. I spend at least 4 hours a month in various company meetings....

Brittney Howard performing Stay High on KEXP Good Data drives actions. A stunning dashboard is good for impressing others, but the real...

I saw Briet at Iceland Airwaves and she had a cadre of Icelandic Generation Z "Swifties" singing along to her beautiful songs in...

The Author's setup from his Home Campaign I'm an avid game master (dungeon master). I have run D&D tables at a local gaming shop and a...

On my way to Carter Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire I am thrilled to say that I will be starting at Evolve next week as a...

The Providence Athenaeum Library A feature is a property of a data product that has been reduced into a form to be used for Machine...

Our world is filled with layers of information - waiting to be comprehended (Author) I have been researching using Machine Learning to...

Aspects of Domain Data The components of Domain Data as a Product are as follows [1]. Discoverable Addressable Reliability...

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to...

Improving Data Architecture with AWS, Snowflake, and Open Source Tools I'm trying that on as a title for a book I'm writing. One of the...

Powerful cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks change our thoughts about normal forms and data warehousing. Photo by David...

I am mourning my friend Bob Lee. http://blog.crazybob.org/2006/12/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-me.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

As a database developer, I take surrogate keys for granted. The surrogate key is the backbone of a data architecture. In the Kimball...

I'm pitching a book on Big Data Analytics and Data Engineering, and the proposal worksheet has a field that says, "Author public speaking...