I normally keep my cryptocurrency stuff relegated to Twitter, but this is some news that should be interesting to anyone who is curious about such things…

I’ve found that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) makes it a bit easier to get current pricing data, compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS). That said, after much searching, I had not found a method to access historical pricing without having to go through the Read More

I’ve been using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) lately for an application I’m building, and I realized yesterday that I only had 4 days left to spend my remaining $293 in free credit for use on GCP. By the way, Google gives you $300 to spend...

A week or so ago, I was looking at the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source code made public by NASA and digitized by Virtual AGC and the MIT Museum. The code was pushed to github by Chris Garry and...

I attended the 2016 Data Science Summit in SF hosted by Turi and sponsored by a number of companies. It was awesome! Here are my notes.

I’ve updated the Projects and About pages to contain a list of projects I’m proud of and… well just a better About page. You still have to go over to GitHub to view my projects, but at least they are listed here now!

It’s amazing how quickly I can forget certain syntax and attributes of languages, and then even more amazing how quickly they come back to me. That said, I’m having to revisit an old friend of mine, PHP, which I haven’t used since approximately 2003, when...

Oh, hello there. It’s been a while.

I got married in late September and since money was tight for the wedding, I ended up writing a python script that helped to order exactly the correct amount of entrees. In the process of doing so I created what is probably the most humorous...

Several months ago, one of my assignments was to perform a multivariate analysis of Lending Club data to see if I could come up with a model that would accurately predict the interest rate offered to a potential lendee, given several indicators such as FICO...

Last week I attended the Extract data science conference in San Francisco that was sponsored by import.io. Mostly I attended the “Data Stories” sessions, where people from various companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Yelp, and others presented on some of the problems they...

Right now I’m working on an analysis of the number of years people spend being educated (which is called “School Life Expectancy” by the UN) as it relates to national GDP. Here’s the education dataset provided by the UN, and GDP...

Well, I’m back from the honeymoon and back at work on my data science coursework. A little background on me: I’m an industrial engineer by education and recently quit my job as a business consultant / data analyst type person to pursue a career in...

Cool, Jekyll is up and running and I’ve now got a blog for my data science work. That was way easier than it was in the year 2000.