Tim Burns
Metabase is the Next Big Thing in BI
I've been disappointed with the lack of good BI tools for years. Tableau is too enterprisey. PowerBI has a Windows taint that makes it...
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Tim Burns
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
Assessing User Security on Snowflake
Photo by Author I imagine myself as a grumpy DBA some ten years previous and getting the task of assessing security on a database with...
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Tim Burns
- Aug 16, 2021
- 1 min
Glad to Report I wasn't Hacked on my Vacation
Seriously... But I am reviewing database security protocols, starting with this article from Oracle https://download.oracle.com/database/...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 17, 2021
- 1 min
Place and Work - Working Remotely from Gould, CO
Twenty years ago, I sat in front of the hummingbird feeder at my cabin in Colorado and imagined a life where I lived and worked in the...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 6, 2021
- 1 min
Data Dictionary and Kaggle
A Dictionary that was a Birthday Present in 1940 Today I discovered Kaggle. It's a fascinating site with Data Science competitions for...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
Exploring Classifiers in Machine Learning
Today, my ML path has me learning Decision Tree Classifiers. All the visualizations I did yesterday focused on looking at flower data...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 3, 2021
- 2 min
Comprehending the Iris Data Set from PySpark
Iris Species with Naive Bayse by Vinay Shaw As I wind my way into Machine Learning, I encountered the "Hello World" of ML Data Sets, the...
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Tim Burns
- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
Entropy and Log Loss
Claude Monet 'Morning on the Seine near Giverny' Entropy measures the level of disorder in a system. Cross-Entropy Loss measures the...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 26, 2021
- 1 min
An ML model for Birds in my Back Yard
I feel like I am hunting and pecking my way into Machine Learning. Get it? Birding... pecking... Sorry, I'm just a loser dad. I find...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 24, 2021
- 5 min
My Personal Leadership Values Manifesto
Photo by Author in Provincetown, MA I am a person of first principles. I like to take basic concepts and use those ideas to give me a...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 17, 2021
- 2 min
Building an ML Model - The PySpark Pipeline
I shouldn't be surprised that building an ML Model is a topic requiring several blog posts and significant study. For example, let's look...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
A Checklist for Building a ML Model in Spark
Often the most effective method of understanding data is creating a checklist. As a data practitioner, I use checklists extensively to...
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Tim Burns
- Jun 3, 2021
- 1 min
Recommended Books on Machine Learning
Photo by Sylvia Sammon-Burns - Taken at The Common Man Inn Here are the classic Machine Learning book references. An Introduction to...
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Tim Burns
- May 29, 2021
- 2 min
A Middle Manager Learns Spark
Photo by Author As I dig into machine learning, I find my mathematical and numerical background makes me a perfect candidate as an expert....
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Tim Burns
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
Turn JSON into Actionable Data - Lunch
Psychology says that humans are able to process up to 7 pieces of information at a time in our short-term memory. That's why we have...
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Tim Burns
- May 14, 2021
- 4 min
From Vulgar Mechanick to Nimble Developer: Machine Learning with PySpark and AWS
Introduction Apache Spark is a powerful tool for processing data, but I've found it's easy to get stuck when learning the technology. If...
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Tim Burns
- May 11, 2021
- 1 min
How to add /usr/local/apache-spark as Content Root on a Mac
After fighting with AWS Glue and realizing that in order to use Glue beyond the point of a dumb scheduler, I need to learn the hell out...
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Tim Burns
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
AWS for Data Scientists: From VPC to Spark
VPC Endpoints are the key to connecting AWS services privately with each other. When you use VPC endpoints, all traffic stays on the AWS...
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Tim Burns
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
E. W. Dijkstra Archive
E. W. Dijkstra is a very important computer scientist and prolific writer. I like to keep a reference to his work handy. Very inspiring...
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Tim Burns
- May 1, 2021
- 5 min
Refactoring Scrum from Basic Principles
Photo by Author Scrum is a Software Development Lifecycle Methodology In its most basic form, Scrum is a Software Development Lifecycle...
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