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What Is Technical Debt? — For Technical and Non-technical Audience

“Technical debt” is a term used to describe delayed maintenance costs caused by initial tradeoffs between quality and speed.

10 min readMay 14, 2021

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What Is Technical Debt? — For Technical and Non-technical Audience

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Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling: A Primer for Managers

Deciding between horizontal and vertical scaling is an important infrastructure consideration when building out applications because it…

7 min readMay 13, 2021

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Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling: A Primer for Managers

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Analyzing the Coronavirus outbreak in France and South Korea

Practical example including clean-up, imputation, dummy encoding, Elbow test, PCA (Principal Components Analysis) and K-Means…

14 min readApr 29, 2020

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Analyzing the Coronavirus outbreak in France and South Korea

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Coronavirus, Psychology, and Data Science

Despite being a global catastrophe, the outbreak should be an eye-opening experience to reshuffle our priorities.

10 min readMar 19, 2020

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Coronavirus, Psychology, and Data Science

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The magic behind Recommendation Systems

Amazon, Netflix and Spotify amaze us with accurate recommendations. Learn how this algorithms work, from theory to practice.

15 min readMar 19, 2020

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The magic behind Recommendation Systems

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From Summarization to Generalization and Prediction

We can make predictions with machine learning by generalizing our data’s pertinent characteristics. Summarizing is a crucial step.

5 min readSep 5, 2019

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From Summarization to Generalization and Prediction

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Data Samples and error visualization techniques

Why we should always keep sampling error in mind. We explore visualization techniques like uncertain bar charts and uncertain ranked lists.

7 min readSep 4, 2019

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Data Samples and error visualization techniques

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The Explainability Dilemma

Healthcare explainability might be the most important dilemma of this century. It will define medical outcomes for future generations.

10 min readSep 3, 2019

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The Explainability Dilemma

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Data Revolution Inside Organizations

How to be prepared for the next wave of Machine Learning innovation that will change the business landscape forever

9 min readAug 19, 2019

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Data Revolution Inside Organizations

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Correlation is not causation

The profound implications of confusing these concepts. Our brain tricks us to recognize causation relationships where they don’t exist.

8 min readAug 14, 2019

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Correlation is not causation

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Anthony Figueroa

Anthony Figueroa

CTO at Rootstrap. I lead tech strategy of a top digital product agency, applying agile methodologies and experience. Passionate about solving complex problems.

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