Tim Burns
Building Better Data Security using BI Analytics
Securing data access is a pathway problem, and that makes it hard. On a toy database presented in a blog article, you might have two or...
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Tim Burns
Aug 21, 20215 min
Monitoring and Alerting on Snowflake
Photo by Author Modern Database Administrators face significant security challenges on cloud-enabled databases like Snowflake. Whether...
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Tim Burns
Aug 20, 20211 min
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, 20213 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, 20211 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, 20211 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, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20211 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, 20211 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, 20215 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, 20212 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, 20213 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, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20214 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, 20211 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, 20213 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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