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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Personal Reading List: 4Q2016

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2016. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) The Path to Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning, by Conor Doherty, Steven Camiña, Kevin White, and Gary Orenstein, O'Reilly, 2016. Copy provided by MemSQL. Picking

New Book Review: "The Last Mile of Analytics"

New book review for The Last Mile of Analytics: Making the Leap from Platforms to Tools, by Mike Barlow, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: Probably the best book I have read regarding the road ahead for the analytics space, despite its small size. In reference to the title, Barlow

Workshop Notes (August 27, 2016): End-to-End Streaming ML Recommendation Pipeline (Spark 2.0, Kafka, TensorFlow)

1871 August 27, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM From the promotional materials: END-TO-END STREAMING ML RECOMMENDATION PIPELINE WORKSHOP Learn to build an end-to-end, streaming recommendations pipeline using the latest streaming analytics tools inside a portable, take-home Docker Container in the cloud! DATE Saturday, August 27, 2016 TIME 9:

New Book Review: "Future Value Generation"

New book review for Future Value Generation: Do You Need to Create New Business Logics?, by Daniel Egger, CreateSpace, 2016, reposted here: Copy provided by author Daniel Egger. According to Egger, most companies today strive to react with quick solutions when challenged by change, and at the same time, strive

New Book Review: "Making Sense of Stream Processing"

New book review for Making Sense of Stream Processing: The Philosophy Behind Apache Kafka and Scalable Stream Data Platforms, by Martin Kleppmann, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: My first exposure to author Martin Kleppmann was at his Strange Loop 2014 talk in St Louis, Missouri entitled "Turning the

Scrum: A Runner's Perspective

Growing up, I ran competitively in school for 10 years, less a couple years break due to school transitions and short-term attendance at a smaller US private school which did not offer a running program. My third grade teacher discovered me so-to-speak and encouraged me to try out for the

Chicago Area Hadoop User Group (CHUG):A Night of SQL on Hadoop (June 21, 2016)

HERE June 21, 2016 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM From the promotional materials: 'SQL on Hadoop' As more corporations are moving to mainstream their Hadoop clusters, there is an increased interest in providing Business Intelligence (BI) functionality. SQL on Hadoop is one of the top interests as

Personal Reading List: 3Q2016

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2016. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst, by Dean Abbott, Wiley, 2014. Copy provided by Amazon. Common Errors in Statistics and How to

New Book Review: "Architecting Data Lakes"

New book review for Architecting Data Lakes: Data Management Architectures for Advanced Business Use Cases, by Alice LaPlante and Ben Sharma, O'Reilly, 2016, by Jonas Bonér, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: This freely available book from O'Reilly is only the third available on the topic

New Book Review: "Going Pro in Data Science"

New book review for Going Pro in Data Science: What it Takes to Succeed as a Professional Data Scientist, by Jerry Overton, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Probably the most practical text on how to succeed as a data science professional. While I have personally read dozens of blog