I am so excited about the new job that I’m starting on July 5th! I’m joining the Field CTO office at Snowflake as a Principal Architect, Data Performance. In this role, I’ll be tackling the thorniest performance issues that clients…
About 18 months ago, I decided that it was time to look for my next job. I had only been at my employer at the time for about 2 years, and had helped them through a couple of tough things…
I’ve struggled to write this blog entry to appropriately convey all aspects of what I want to say. This is my third attempt, and I finally think it does things justice. As part of my publicly shared data science journey,…
It has been a while since I wrote one of these, and it’s about time! Recap In June of 2018, I set a new goal for myself. Long-term goal (by 2035): Work on data science in a way that makes…
I’ve been moving along well this year on my data science journey. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying an edX class: Python for Data Science from UC San Diego. I started using Jupyter Notebooks (Python Kernel) over a year and a half…
Well, I knew it was going to be slow, and that is part of why my plan is a 20-year plan instead of just a short-term plan. The fall was particularly difficult due to a couple of issues at work…
One of the struggles for any well-employed person is to find time for further training and educating themselves. Thus I find that I make a lot of progress toward my data science learning goals on airplanes and from airports. ……