In my last post and generally I like to talk up how useful a data science approach is to understanding your data but in this post I want to sound a note of caution as it can be easy to get carried away and generally if the results look to good to be true that’s… Read more
I go to a lot of computer events and I feel for the organisers when 80 have registered and only about 30 turn up. I am not sure why the no shows feel it’s OK not to spend a few seconds on Meetup or EventBrite to cancel, as a matter of common courtesy. Anyway rant… Read more
In the dark days of the last millennium data scientists were serious statisticians using exotic hardware, expensive software and were largely isolated from the rest of the organisations they worked for. Today the cloud and open source languages like R & Python have made this technology available to anyone curious enough to be interested in… Read more
Have you got your subscription under control particularly if you are on MSDN or a smaller budget and it’s just you or a small team using it? If you aren’t sure then read on; else Coffee. Here’s the problem we all forget to turn stuff off or kill it when we don’t need it which… Read more
I am in the middle of preparing for some more events the next big one being a day of machine learning (ML) at SQL Saturday Exeter. The organisers asked me to make a short video to explain what I’ll be covering and that got me to thinking about what my advice would be having worked… Read more