Lessons Learned from Writing My First Python Script
After 25 Years of Coding in C And Perl. As an independent author/researcher, there is of course nothing in my “job description” that says I should code in Pyt...
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Common Sense Machine Learning
There are different ways to define common sense machine learning. It could mean using simple models whenever possible, avoiding overfitting, correctly selecting features,...
DSC Weekly Newsletter 03 May 2022: How Many Meetings Do We Need?
One of the more frustrating side effects of the Long Pandemic has been the rise in virtual meetings. I recently was talking with a colleague when the subject of meetings ...
Are PDF Documents a Thing of the Past?
There has been many articles predicting the death of the PDF format, invented in 1993. Some of these articles are 10 years old: you can find them by googling “death...
DSC Weekly Newsletter 26 April 2022: Why The Case for RTO Remains Weak
As the Omicron variant of Covid-19 surged around the globe in 2021, managers who had begun contingency plans for a return to the office quietly shelved them to wait out t...
DSC Weekly Digest 4/19/2022: The Case for Personal Knowledge Graphs
I just moved. I’d like to say that I was highly organized, that I knew where every box ended up and what was in each box. I would be lying. Most people who move know th...
DSC Weekly Digest 4/12/2022: Demographics Drives Analytics
The Los Angeles Times recently reported on a growing problem not just for California School Districts, but across much of the Northern Hemisphere: The number of children ...
6 Business Applications that Badly Need Better AI
The success and growth of AI is undeniable. Yet there are still basic tasks performing poorly, despite or because of automation. In some cases, you can blame reliance on ...
DSC Weekly Digest: Moving Time
For nine years, my family and I have lived in a house in Issaquah, a little community about twenty minutes east of Seattle. The town still retains its charms — a do...
The Myth of Analytic Talent Shortage
I tested the job market in the last two weeks, both as an applicant, and as a hiring manager. I share my experience here. It is radically different from what you read in ...