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Tim Burns
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What new albums are hot? Checking out my KEXP Dashboard
Here is the dashboard as of this morning: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/timothy.burns/viz/KEXPDJFavorites/DJFavorites_1#1...

Tim Burns
Oct 1, 20221 min read
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Streams on my KEXP Data Warehouse
Photo by Author with the Never Summer Wilderness in the Background Introduction I enjoy integrating my love of music into my professional...

Tim Burns
Sep 24, 20225 min read
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Creating a Calendar Dimension
Calendars and dates drive our lives; a calendar dimension is essential to most data warehouses. Pope Gregory introduced the Gregorian...

Tim Burns
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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Why Agile is all about Delivery
Jason Isbell Always Delivers Deliver Working Products If you do one thing with your Scrum above all else: deliver working products. If...

Tim Burns
Sep 3, 20222 min read
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Bronfenbrenner's Theory and Data
Although I am not an MD, I run in a circle of non-traditional MDs, I was with my wife, who is a Psychiatrist, having dinner with a...

Tim Burns
Jul 16, 20223 min read
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Reflections on Snowflake Summit 2022
I recently returned from Snowflake Summit 22, and I am certainly impressed at the depth and breadth of the new features announced during...

Tim Burns
Jun 18, 20222 min read
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Bibliography for Baseline Subject Review
Here is a short bibliography of baseline articles for data on outcomes and care with respect to youth mental health....

Tim Burns
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Two Articles (with CMEs) from the Green Journal
The Author having Lunch Our main goal for Q2 is to build a bibliography of articles to join current discussions in the Mental Health...

Tim Burns
Jun 4, 20221 min read
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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...

Tim Burns
May 15, 20221 min read
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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
May 14, 20221 min read
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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
May 9, 20221 min read
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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
May 7, 20222 min read
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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
Apr 23, 20221 min read
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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
Apr 19, 20221 min read
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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
Apr 15, 20221 min read
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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
Apr 3, 20224 min read
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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
Mar 27, 20224 min read
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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
Mar 20, 20222 min read
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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
Feb 6, 20221 min read
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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
Feb 5, 20222 min read
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