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D&D and Scrum - "Rules as Written"
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...

Tim Burns
Oct 22, 20233 min read
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Making My Way as a Principle Data Architect at Evolve
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...

Tim Burns
May 25, 20231 min read
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The Feast Feature Store and Snowflake
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...

Tim Burns
May 22, 20231 min read
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Machine Learning will change everything
Our world is filled with layers of information - waiting to be comprehended (Author) I have been researching using Machine Learning to...

Tim Burns
May 10, 20232 min read
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Domain Data as a Product
Aspects of Domain Data The components of Domain Data as a Product are as follows [1]. Discoverable Addressable Reliability...

Tim Burns
Apr 25, 20231 min read
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Saturday Words of Wisdom
“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...

Tim Burns
Apr 22, 20231 min read
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Value, Delivery, Security, Repeatability, and Simplicity
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...

Tim Burns
Apr 19, 20233 min read
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A Lean Data Pipeline - on Medium
Powerful cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks change our thoughts about normal forms and data warehousing. Photo by David...

Tim Burns
Apr 12, 20231 min read
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A Sad Loss
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...

Tim Burns
Apr 9, 20231 min read
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Thoughts on Surrogate Keys in Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks
As a database developer, I take surrogate keys for granted. The surrogate key is the backbone of a data architecture. In the Kimball...

Tim Burns
Mar 30, 20232 min read
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Pitching a Book - Public Speaking Samples
I'm pitching a book on Big Data Analytics and Data Engineering, and the proposal worksheet has a field that says, "Author public speaking...

Tim Burns
Mar 29, 20232 min read
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Technical Blogging and the Gospel of Thomas
Today at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, where I am a member, the sermon was on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Gnostic...

Tim Burns
Mar 19, 20231 min read
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Data Warehousing, the Three-Tier Data Pattern, and Normal Forms (2NF, 3NF)
The Data Warehouse (Lakehouse) So we want to store all our data in a data warehouse to make business decisions based on data. Every data...

Tim Burns
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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Who to Review for Data Warehousing and Lean
I received an email from a company asking me to write training manuals for them, and it got me thinking. If I were to create materials,...

Tim Burns
Mar 12, 20232 min read
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DW Design Planning - Provide the Analysts with Access to Answer Business Questions
I am gradually working through the Kimball Model through various blog postings. Reading the postings in order would make more sense, and...

Tim Burns
Mar 11, 20233 min read
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My Mom Teaching Galapagos Volcanoes
I am so heart-warmed this morning to get this video of my mother who was an amazing person and teacher.

Tim Burns
Mar 10, 20231 min read
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Automate Snowflake Data Pipelines with Terraform
References Snowflake (2021) SNS subscription remains in the Pending state while configuring Snowpipe using SNS AWS (2023) Walkthrough:...

Tim Burns
Mar 4, 20231 min read
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The Kimball Model Revisted - Data Quality
Once we've gathered the data we need into a data lake, we need to assess the quality and build pipelines to get all data to a consistent...

Tim Burns
Feb 26, 20233 min read
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An Updated Take on The Kimball Model
You have a mountain of data and the unlimited potential of a cloud data architecture to load it, but where should you start? Maybe you...

Tim Burns
Feb 21, 20234 min read
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Using ChatGPT for Data Modelling
ChatGPT is a great data modeling tool. I wanted to generalize my data model for my radio station data warehouse, and I asked ChatGPT to...

Tim Burns
Feb 19, 20231 min read
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