Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
When I moved to New York City, my hobby was attending events and panel discussions. Afterwards, I would write-up observations.
I haven’t blogged very often since I got married, had kids, and moved to the suburbs. I continued my writing by posting on social media and working with The New Stack.
How many times have you been disappointed in vendor-produced content? Do you contemptuously look at an analyst firm’s report thinking you know more about the subject than the author? Have you ever been embarrassed because your six-page study is clearly produced by Marketing and not actual experts? […]
Bill Franks knew what he was talking about at last December’s Data Skeptic’s Meetup. I recommend him as a speaker. In his job at Teradata, I can easily see him successfully introducing robust new analytic projects to Teradata’s legacy data warehouse clients. While Franks had to cover […]
UPDATE: After talking to Mr. Hammond, I realized the main use case I was envisioning isn’t what he’s focusing on. He is focusing on a final product that is a complete news article, like about a baseball game or an earnings announcement. ORIGINAL POST: I […]
I just heard DJ Patel, the guy who created LinkedIn’s data team talk about creating data science teams. Besides mentioning Python in passing, he didn’t talk about software skills or statistics competency. Instead, he said being a creative problem solver was the most important prerequisite. Here […]
One of the benefits of Big Data analytics is that it incorporates previously unmanageable data with existing customer information located in data warehouses. James Kobielus of Forrester didn’t spend time going into the intricacies of the data management, but did talk about how it is […]
I’m going to ignore my problems with the term “data scientists” and focus on the actual topic. This is going to be the first of several posts on the subject. Cathy O’Neil of Intent Media talked about hiring data scientists at today’s Strata Summit. To […]
I shouldn’t have been so excited to hear Jonathan Lethem speak just because he was recently awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, which is the “genius award” my father used to talk to me about. I had never read any of his books, which include Fortress of […]
Do you have childhood memories of a pillow fight? Do you like to engage in public activities others steer away from? If so, then you should have been at the pillow fight in Union Square this Saturday. Newmindspace organized this event as interactive public art. […]
Once a month a bunch of intellectual Jews gather in the Lower East Side. Surrounded by Soviet propaganda, the evening could have taken place 50 or 100 years ago, but this is New York City circa 2006. Novel Jews is a series of readings by […]
Yeah, it usually means Jewish American Princess, but that term didn’t define the three black clad women on a Makor panel about “Debunking the Myth of the JAP”. According to Rhonda Lieberman, Isabel Rose, and Alana Newhouse, a JAP is stereotypically spoiled, loves shopping, shallow, […]
Starting off the fall lecture season, tonight’s public forum was definitely an example of “deliberative democracy”, as the host Brian Lehrer put it. At least four people were removed from the audience for exercising their First Amendment right to scream, mostly about the trampling of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches.
I attended a rather worthwhile networking event organized by mediabistro.com and BtoB Magazine. The venue, Light, was upscale and they even served some hors d’oeuvres. I am happy to report that mediabistro.com still organizes some of the best free networking events in New York City. […]