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Data and Culture go hand in hand
Data and culture must go hand in hand in modern organizations.
11 years, 1400 blog posts...and a pretty graph
As part of a tutorial on Text Analytics and Visualization I just finished over on technical blog called Python Data (where I blog about using python for
Text Analytics and Visualization
Using basic Text Analytics and Visualization techniques, keywords can be automatically extracted from text and relationships can be visualized.
The Data Way
When working with data, don't just find the answers to your questions. Keep digging and find new questions to ask.
Be pragmatic, not dogmatic
Rather than blindly follow your a 'successful' company, find ways to incorporate their successes into your organization. Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.
Text Analytics with Python – A book review
Text Analytics with Python by Dipanjan Sarkar provides an overview of how to use Python to perform text analytics / natural language processing.
Python and AWS Lambda – A match made in heaven
Using Python and AWS Lambda, I've been able to offload a number of python scripts (set up as API endpoints on AWS) to allow more flexibility and save money.
Data Quality – The most important data dimension?
Many organizations are jumping on the big data bandwagon (rightfully so). A good portion of them aren't thinking about data quality before data analytics.
Stock market forecasting with prophet
In this article I look at stock market forecasting with prophet and compare a few errors measures to see how well prophet can forecast the market.
Driving Digital by Isaac Sacolick – a book review
Driving Digital is one of the best books I've read on digital transformation. Rather than talk in theory, Isaac provides a game-plan for driving digital.
Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Trend Changepoints
Prophet does a very good job of detecting trend changepoints. In this post, I provide an example where I look at the capabilities of Prophet.
Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Part 3
This third installment of Forecasting time series data with prophet provides an example using holidays to try to improve the model.
Forecasting Time Series data with Prophet – Jupyter Notebook
An overview of using Prophet for forecasting time series data with a link to jupyter notebooks.
Technology can be a band-aid rather than a solution
I do love technology, but not as much as I love solving the real problem(s) that my clients have rather than just covering those problems up with band-aids.
Forecasting Time-Series data with Prophet – Part 2
In this article, I provide a few tips to make a bit more realistic and useful visualizations from Facebook's Prophet for forecasting time-series library.
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