Data Architect

A Love Letter to Make

Make is 43 this year and it is still my tool of choice to automate my data…

Wish I Could Be Like David Watts

Spatial Relations

Look around and start seeing the world in points, lines, and polygons.

Regression Testing for Regressions

How do different samples, data cleaning methods, feature…

Choose Great Keys

Keys should human readable, not just machine readable.

Reproducible Data Wrangling

For the movements of “reproducible research” and “open data” to really…

Eggs Are Easier to Ship than Omelettes

- I estimated the regression model we discussed last week and it didn’t work.
- Which…

Spells

Find a model that fits your data as it is. Don’t torture your data to conform to models you…

Everything is a Function

Procedural programming comes natural to scientists, because it reads like a…