EB
Sep 19, 2017
Python and AWS Lambda – A match made in heaven

Using Python and AWS Lambda, I've been able to offload a number of python scripts (set up as API endpoints on AWS) to allow more flexibility and save money.

EB
Sep 18, 2017
Data Quality – The most important data dimension?

Many organizations are jumping on the big data bandwagon (rightfully so). A good portion of them aren't thinking about data quality before data analytics.

EB
Sep 12, 2017
Stock market forecasting with prophet

In this article I look at stock market forecasting with prophet and compare a few errors measures to see how well prophet can forecast the market.

EB
Sep 6, 2017
Driving Digital by Isaac Sacolick – a book review

Driving Digital is one of the best books I've read on digital transformation. Rather than talk in theory, Isaac provides a game-plan for driving digital.

EB
Sep 1, 2017
Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Trend Changepoints

Prophet does a very good job of detecting trend changepoints. In this post, I provide an example where I look at the capabilities of Prophet.

EB
Aug 28, 2017
Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Part 3

This third installment of Forecasting time series data with prophet provides an example using holidays to try to improve the model.

EB
Aug 26, 2017
Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Jupyter Notebook

An overview of using Prophet for forecasting time series data with a link to jupyter notebooks.

EB
Jul 10, 2017
Technology can be a band-aid rather than a solution

I do love technology, but not as much as I love solving the real problem(s) that my clients have rather than just covering those problems up with band-aids.

EB
Jun 16, 2017
Forecasting Time-Series data with Prophet – Part 2

In this article, I provide a few tips to make a bit more realistic and useful visualizations from Facebook's Prophet for forecasting time-series library.

EB
Jun 2, 2017
Visualizing data – overlaying charts in python

Visualizing data is vital to analyzing data. If you can't see your data - and see it in multiple ways - you'll have a hard time analyzing that data

EB
Jun 1, 2017
Forecasting Time-Series data with Prophet – Part 1

Forecasting time-series data with Prophet. Prophet is a fairly new library for python and R to help with forecasting time-series data.

EB
Feb 16, 2017
Don't forget the "Science" in Data Science

Doing data science without 'science' is nothing more than throwing darts at a dart board and thinking the results are meaningful.

EB
Feb 13, 2017
Who Owns Risk?

This is a guest post from Christine Sato Proper risk management is vital to any project manager. Any big project is sure to have a great deal of risk,

EB
Feb 3, 2017
Foto Friday – Shining Light, Cascade Creek

This is a multi-bracket, slow shutter capture of Cascade Creek near Durango CO. Captured with Canon 5DsR and Canon 16-35 f/4 L.

EB
Jan 25, 2017
A tale of two employees

A 'rockstar' on paper means little of that person isn't able or willing to get the job done.

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