I'm not Jewish, but early September has always felt like a new year to me. This year is no different. After a sometimes quiet,...

KEXP - Where the Music Matters As I searched for my daily fix of KEXP, I ran across a Tableau demo dashboard devoted to KEXP. Way to go,...

Those who know me well know that I am a Critter and an avid Table Top Role Playing game fan. For those that don't know about Critical...

There, I said it, I enjoy every declarative language I use HTML SQL JSON YAML These languages - modern or anachronistic - are just...

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...

Photo by Author Modern Database Administrators face significant security challenges on cloud-enabled databases like Snowflake. Whether...

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...

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...

Seriously... But I am reviewing database security protocols, starting with this article from Oracle https://download.oracle.com/database/...

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...

A Dictionary that was a Birthday Present in 1940 Today I discovered Kaggle. It's a fascinating site with Data Science competitions for...

Today, my ML path has me learning Decision Tree Classifiers. All the visualizations I did yesterday focused on looking at flower data...

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...

Claude Monet 'Morning on the Seine near Giverny' Entropy measures the level of disorder in a system. Cross-Entropy Loss measures the...

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...

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...

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...

Often the most effective method of understanding data is creating a checklist. As a data practitioner, I use checklists extensively to...

Photo by Sylvia Sammon-Burns - Taken at The Common Man Inn Here are the classic Machine Learning book references. An Introduction to...

Photo by Author As I dig into machine learning, I find my mathematical and numerical background makes me a perfect candidate as an expert....