The Problem In summer 2020, I presented my interns with the task of writing a tutorial with a data ingestion component. We had many talks about appropriate data sources in the effort to find data that were relevant to our tutorial, easy to obtain, had a license appropriate for our use case…

What I Did, and The Results — What I Did In late January of 2018, I started keeping better track of what I was doing. Inspired by a combination of advice from disciplined colleagues and suggestions from the Marlow Daily Challenge I made a note in my favorite note taking app called “2018 Weekly Goals and Reviews.” …

On April 19th, 2018 I attended Uber Tech Day 2018. I had such a great time and learned so many wonderful things that I decided to share some of my thoughts and notes from the day. Why I Went A good friend of mine sent me an invite to Uber Tech Day 2018…

…the key components to success at the GE Digital Industrial Transformation Summit in Shanghai, China. Well, maybe the dumplings were just an added bonus, but I would certainly recommend them to anyone visiting Shanghai. Day 0: The Pre-Event After a breakfast that of course, included dumplings, and a day of…

I’ve been a jack of all trades for as long as I remember. My extracurriculars in high school had nothing to do with my favorite academics. My studies at Carleton — a liberal arts college that was a perfect place for a jack of all trades like me to learn…

The Problem Data sets are not perfect. Sometimes they end up with invalid, corrupt, or missing values. For the project I was working on, I could not have any values that were null or empty. …