How Connect with Data Engineering Community on LinkedIN When it comes to professional networking and social media LinkedIN is king! However, does it make sense for Data Engineers and Data Scientist to embrace LinkedIN? The simple answer is if you … [Continue reading]
Big Data Big Questions Tableau is huge for interacting with data and empower users to find insight in their data. So does this mean Tableau is the primary tool for Data Scientist? In this episode of Big Data Big Questions we tackle the question of … [Continue reading]
Last month I released my 7th course at Pluralsight and first learning path course. Installing and Configuring Splunk is my second course in the world of Splunk. In this course I focus on understanding what it take to become a Splunk Architect. Since … [Continue reading]
Recently we have been talking a lot about Deep Learning and Tensorflow. In the last post I walked through how to build neural networks with Tensorflow . Now I want to shift gears to talk about my newest venture into Tensorflow with TFLearn. The lines … [Continue reading]
My Tensorflow Journey It all started last year when I accepted the challenge to take Andrew Ng's Coursera Machine Learning Course with the Big Data Beard Team. Now here I am a year later with a new Pluralsight course diving into Tensorflow … [Continue reading]
In the past we have been working our way through learning how to create tables and update data in DynamoDB. However, I believe it's important to cover how indexing works in DynamoDB. Let's run through the 3 main options for indexes in … [Continue reading]
What does a Data Scientist do? Data Scientist are changing the world but what do they really do? Basically a Data Scientist's job is to find correlation in data that might be able to predict outcomes. Most of the time their job is spent data … [Continue reading]
Is Splunk a tool Data Engineers should take time to learn? Throughout my careers I've always been on the look out for new tools that can help me create more value in my role. Splunk has been one of those tools. A few years back a Cory Minton … [Continue reading]
How Do IoT Message Brokers Work? What are message brokers in IoT? Message brokers are the middle ware in IoT & Streaming applications. Think of these systems as queuing systems that allow for quick writes to one system that can be read by many … [Continue reading]
Will AWS Certification Help Data Scientist? Every discipline in IT has different certification and the debate about the worth of those certification will go on forever. Data Scientist cross over with needing skills in coding, operations, and math. … [Continue reading]
Why shouldn't everything be a string? Sometimes it that would make the development world easy, but only in the short-term. Let's dive into the DynamoDB Data Types to help build stronger Data Engineers. What is DyanmoDB DynamoDB is a NoSQL … [Continue reading]
My Journey Web Developer to Machine Learning Engineer How can a Web Developer become a Machine Learning Engineer? It's a journey I had quite a few years back when Hadoop became a popular platform for analyzing large data sets in a distributed … [Continue reading]