Data

GraphQL vs. REST

Two ways to send data over HTTP: What’s the difference?

Millennials’ Sobriety Isn’t What It Seems

They’re avoiding many of the substances that got earlier…

Rise of the Data Product Manager

Over the next several years, there will be a new kind of product manager in demand — the data product manager. I have previously argued that good data scientists make good product managers, but this is incomplete. Data is at the core of product development; not only in…

Pythagoras and WAR in the NBA

Transferring common team and player evaluation methods from baseball to…

Forever Isn’t Free: The Cost of Storage on a Blockchain Database

Denoising Autoencoders explained

Last month, I wrote about Variational Autoencoders and some of their use-cases. This time, I’ll have a…

You Say Data, I Say System

In the fall of 2009, I wrote a pair of algorithms to place nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan…

Going Digital and Ditching Paper? Read this First.

Data Analysis of the Apparent ‘Fake Artists’ of Spotify

Focus on Data

When you think geospatial you think data, right? You imagine GIS professionals working their butts off making normalized datasets that have wonderful metadata. Nah, that’s just some slide at the Esri UC where “best practices” become the focus of a week away from the family in the Gaslamp. For some…