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New Book Review: "A Whirlwind Tour of Python"

New book review for A Whirlwind Tour of Python, by Jake VanderPlas, O'Reilly, 2016: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Yes, this book provides a bit of a whirlwind tour of the Python language, not unlike the cycling race depicted on the cover. The author starts by commenting

New Book Review: "Picking a Python Version"

New book review for Picking a Python Version: A Manifesto, by David Mertz, O'Reilly, 2015: Copy provided by O'Reilly. As someone relatively new to Python, this book perfectly matched my need to understand the currently available 2.x and 3.x series of the programming language.

New Book Review: "In Search of Database Nirvana"

New book review for In Search of Database Nirvana: The Challenges of Delivering Hybrid Transaction / Analytical Processing, by Rohit Jain, O'Reilly, 2016: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Many potential readers of this book will likely dismiss it as being too theoretical in nature to be considered by

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: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Probably the best book I have read regarding the road ahead for the analytics space, despite its small size. In reference

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: 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 to design

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: Copy provided by O'Reilly. My first exposure to author Martin Kleppmann was at his Strange Loop 2014 talk in St Louis, Missouri

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

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: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This freely available book from O'Reilly is only the third available on the topic of data lakes,