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Leadership

Be pragmatic, not dogmatic

Rather than blindly follow your a 'successful' company, find ways to incorporate their successes into your organization. Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.

Sep 28, 2017 · 2 min read
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book-review

Text Analytics with Python – A book review

Text Analytics with Python by Dipanjan Sarkar provides an overview of how to use Python to perform text analytics / natural language processing.

Sep 26, 2017 · 3 min read
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Cloud

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.

Sep 19, 2017 · 6 min read
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Big Data

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.

Sep 18, 2017 · 4 min read
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prophet

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.

Sep 12, 2017 · 5 min read
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Book Reviews

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.

Sep 6, 2017 · 3 min read
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python

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.

Sep 1, 2017 · 5 min read
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python

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.

Aug 28, 2017 · 3 min read
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python

Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Jupyter Notebook

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

Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read
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Technology

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.

Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read
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pandas

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.

Jun 16, 2017 · 4 min read
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python

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

Jun 2, 2017 · 4 min read
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python

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.

Jun 1, 2017 · 6 min read
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Big Data

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.

Feb 16, 2017 · 2 min read
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Project Management

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,

Feb 13, 2017 · 4 min read

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