Does Data Science Replace BI?
When a new technology comes around, there’s a temptation to think that it replaces a previous one. But most of …
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The Team Data Science Process
Processes are great things. They give you a place to start, a roadmap, and a way to explain to your …
Seatbelt Learning with Uncle Buck
I travel a great deal for my work. For instance, in the next two weeks alone, I’ll travel from Florida …
Data Wrangling – Regular Expressions
The first step of deep analysis using the Team Data Science Process is to find the right question. From there, …
Learning on the Move
Probably the most interesting reactions I get (and that’s saying a lot) is when I tell people that …
Data Wrangling – ELT not ETL
In Data Science, we most often use Extract, Load and Transform (ELT) as opposed to Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) …
Hello Buck – I’d like to work at Microsoft
About once a week or so, after teaching a Data Science class or at an event, I’ll get asked “Hey …
Enabling the Linux Susbsystem in Windows 10
If you’ve upgraded to the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition (writing this as of 2016), you have a new way of …
The Inherent Insecurity of Data Science
Data Science attempts to derive meaning from data. There are a lot of techniques, processes and tools you can …
Don’t learn to be a Data Scientist
It’s my custom to learn continuously – I keep a technical book, course, or class going at all times, and the latest I completed was a course called “Learning How to Learn” on Coursera. (highly recommended, by the way).
The instructors covered an interesting topic in that course – that you should not focus on the result of what you’re learning.
