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...

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

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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...

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I am so heart-warmed this morning to get this video of my mother who was an amazing person and teacher.

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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...