DBAs: Come Learn R With Me

In conjunction with SQL Saturday Madison, I am giving my first full-day training session entitled Enter the Tidyverse:  R for the Data Professional on Friday, April 6th.  I'm using the term "data professional" in particular because I want to hit a relatively under-served part of the community:  database administrators.  I should note that if you're a…

Data Processing: The Other 90%

This is part three of a series on launching a data science project. The Three Steps Of Data Processing Data processing is made up of a few different activities:  data gathering, data cleansing, and data analysis.  Most estimates are that data scientists spend about 80% of their time in data processing (particularly in data cleansing). …