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New Book Review: "Practical Machine Learning"

New book review for Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation, by Ellen Friedman and Ted Dunning, O'Reilly, 2014: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This work is a short, white paper sized text that walks the reader through practical aspects of machine learning recommendation, specifically for those who

New Book Review: "Star Schema"

New book review for Star Schema: The Complete Reference, by Christopher Adamson, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2010: For technologists looking for a thorough exploration of the traditional data warehouse star schema, nothing compares to this book. Other reviewers are correct that although works by Ralph Kimball are classics in this space,

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 5

My last post in this series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section mentioned that I walked the Membership Development Chair through the visualizations of my latest monthly presentation to the team, partially in preparation for his request of me to

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 4

This post is the fourth in a series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section, a new position that I filled in September 2012 after the membership development team realized that ongoing data analyses and reporting was needed around declining enrollment.

New Book Review: "Data Science for Business"

New book review for Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, O'Reilly Media, 2013: Copy provided by Amazon. As the authors discuss in the preface to this text, the content presented here provides a

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 6

The last post in my series on Liquibase, an open source database change management tool, mentioned that I had been contacted by a startup that was looking to potentially work on a commercial release. A couple months after meeting with the cofounder and CTO of the firm as part of

New Book Review: "Customer Data Integration"

New book review for Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth (SAS Institute Inc), by Jil Dyche and Evan Levy, Wiley, 2006: After discussing customer relationship management (CRM), master data management (MDM), and CDI, the authors discuss the challenges of data integration and the far-reaching effects of

New Book Review: "Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration"

New book review for Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration, by Jonathan Bowen, Packt Publishing, 2012, reposted here: Decent introductory text on getting started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration. After briefly discussing installation (which was trivial in my case, since I installed on Windows 7,

New Book Review: "R in a Nutshell"

New book review for R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Second Edition), by Joseph Adler, O'Reilly, 2012: This book is the second that I purchased this past year to get up to speed on the R language and environment, along with "R in Action"

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 3

This post is the third in a series on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section, a new position that I filled this past year after the membership development team realized that ongoing data analyses and reporting was needed around declining enrollment.