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So, the POC is in full swing and I have to say, even without the use cases we are pretty sold on the platform. We came in with a problem oriented feature document (See: Pragmatic Marketing Process). This document outlined the use cases that we wanted the POC to solve for. Problem At Shiftkey, our […]
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The setup was super quick and easy. Once that was done, I decided to give it some time before I did an in-depth analysis of the tool. The product gives you a notification that the system may take some time to train all the models and learn how your data architecture works. I surprised at […]
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As we walk through the POC with Monte Carlo, I am going through the implementation. Here are my notes. It was truly very easy to set up and Im usually skeptical when a sales person tells me its only going to take x minutes to set it up. This was actually pretty simple and didn’t […]
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A modern data stack has a number of components that you can’t live without. Until about a month ago, I’m really embarrassed to say that I never considered or even thought about data observability. Maybe the concept in a different form, like “notification and monitoring”. But after my discussion with my friends over at Monte […]
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The general thought for a digital services company is to attempt to set themselves apart from their competitors using some niche or other differentiator. As technology evolves, the standard services that have come to be known as “Digital Services” are becomming commoditized. Right about now, service industry professionals are yelling and screaming about how a […]
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Before you develop a website, you have to setup an environment. These are instructions for setting up a local environment to build websites. If you set this up, you will have the ability to build and test your personal projects without needing internet access. Applications In order to build a local environment quickly, I have […]
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What makes for a good visualization? There are a number of components that are necessary for a visualization to be valuable. Just having a line (series item) represent some segment of data (y-axis) over time (x-axis) isn’t enough. For a data visualization to be relevant you need two main things, context and reference. The more […]
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If you build data visualizations you have run into the issues of useless words destroying the value of your display. You should find a way to implement these “stopwords” into your data streams. Here is a collection of stopword lists in many languages. http://www.ranks.nl/stopwords
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When you dig a few levels deep into the Finder, you may lose your path. Sure, you could enable the Path bar by going to View > Show Path Bar, but you can also enable the Path view in the less-obtrusive title bar. Enable Command: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES Reversal Command: defaults write […]