Celebrate Your Data Analysts - Before It's Too Late
Data analysts are quitting their jobs in masse because they feel they have no impact. What can you do to change things before it's too late?
How I Learned Data Science in 90 Days
I first encountered data science (aka data mining, machine leaning, artificial
intelligence, etc) back in 2014. I was a newly
Learning Strategy from First Principles - A Review of Wardley Maps
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the word strategy? If you’re
The Data Executive Playbook: How to use Wardley Maps to Determine Strategy in Modern Organizations
This blog post is an exploration of strategic play inside an organization viewed through the lens of a hypothetical data
Understanding the Data Landscape and Strategic Play Through Wardley Mapping
A Wardley map is a form of mapping invented by Simon Wardley (@swardley
[https://twitter.com/swardley]) that helps you
Goals Aren't the Only Way
> We assume that any worthy social accomplishment is best achieved by first
setting it as an objective and then
How to Recognize Hidden Opportunities
In a previous essay I wrote about the three elements that comprise serendipity:
1. Curious Tinkering, (the pursuit of ideas
Extracting Text Tags from Product Descriptions using Machine Learning
In the summer of 2019 I decided to enter the yearly company hackathon with a
project that had been brewing
How to Get Lucky - The Elements of Serendipity
> Luck favors the prepared mind
-Louis Pasteur
In the summer of 2019 I entered the annual 2.5 day
The Making of a Self Educated Child Genius
At the age of 14, Taylor Wilson built a nuclear reactor in his parent's basement and achieved nuclear fusion, becoming the 32nd person in history to do so, and the first person to do it at his age.