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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 4Q2021

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2021. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a Haircut, by Joshua Coombes, Akashic Books, 2021. Copy provided by Amazon.

Product Reviews: Part 9

Exactly two months ago, midway into my five-month hiatus writing for this blog, the 508 reviews I had written for Amazon up to that point in time hit the milestone of 3000 helpful votes, with my ranking standing at #7,764 in a list containing many millions of reviewers. My

New Book Review: "Executive Presence for the Modern Leader"

New book review for Executive Presence for the Modern Leader: A Guide to Cultivating Success and Thriving in the Workplace, by D. A. Benton, Rockridge Press, 2021: Copy provided by Amazon. The author mentions in her introduction that in conjunction with a new business venture she had started, she took

Personal Reading List: 3Q2021

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2021. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Executive Presence for the Modern Leader: A Guide to Cultivating Success and Thriving in the Workplace, by D. A. Benton, Rockridge Press, 2021. Copy provided by Amazon.

Blog Note: Part 1 - Blog posting hiatus due to new role

Thank you to all of my readers for your patience. Some of you have reached out to me inquiring about my lack of posts over the past five months, and I am writing to let you know that I am back, albeit perhaps to a limit extent relative to my

New Book Review: "Python Programming for Beginners"

New book review for Python Programming for Beginners: A Kid's Guide to Coding Fundamentals, by Patricia Foster, Rockridge Press, 2020: Copy provided by Amazon. In her one-page "How to Use this Book" introduction, Foster states that "this book will teach you the basics of Python

Personal Reading List: 2Q2021

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2021. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, by Michael D. Watkins, Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Copy provided by Deloitte.

Media Query Source: Part 33 - TechTarget (US digital magazine); Hadoop vs Spark: An an-depth big data framework comparison

* TechTarget (US digital magazine) * Apache Hadoop & Apache Spark * Overlap can exist between installations * Performance & use cases My responses ended up being included in an article at TechTarget (May 7, 2021). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The

Community Comment: Part 8

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6764517635876040704?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6764517635876040704%2C6766303415871041537%29 Head of Experimentation at Social Media Platform: We should re-title “data cleaning” as “understanding the data”. Why? 1. It’s

New Book Review: "Learning Spark (Second Edition)"

New book review for Learning Spark (Second Edition), by Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, and Denny Lee, O'Reilly, 2020, reposted here: Copy provided by Databricks at Spark + AI Summit 2020. The foreword and preface to this book comment that an update to the first edition, published