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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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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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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...

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...

VPC Endpoints are the key to connecting AWS services privately with each other. When you use VPC endpoints, all traffic stays on the AWS...

E. W. Dijkstra is a very important computer scientist and prolific writer. I like to keep a reference to his work handy. Very inspiring...

Photo by Author Scrum is a Software Development Lifecycle Methodology In its most basic form, Scrum is a Software Development Lifecycle...

The AWS cloud opens a whole new level of frustration for data scientists. You now have access to a cornucopia of amazing tools, but one...

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Big Data Systems Development is filled with complexity, and more often than not, interesting and elegant shortcuts. It is such a vast set...

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I was reading LinkedIn comments and posting and ran across a post that referenced Jeff Patton's "User Story Mapping." I hadn't heard of...

This Dog understands Persistence Agile belongs to developers. It's our methodology and tool for working with customers in a better way. ...

In my excellent and satisfying job as a "Data Architect, " most of what I do is explore data with "nonnumerical analysis." I've been...