Job Skills & Automation: Partnerships & Policy Efforts
A review of government and public efforts to close the 'skills gap.'
All Writing
2020
Job Skills & Automation: The persistent 'skills gap.'
Steps towards productive lifelong learning.
Setting up a Jekyll gh-pages site on Github.
Quick notes for easy setup if you have Windows 10.
Job Skills & Automation: The importance of demand.
Folks will need new skills more than they'll need new jobs.
A Diverging Economy: 'Superstar firms' and wage dispersion.
A potential impact of unequal adoption of ICT.
2019
The Digital Economy: Update.
Exploring the last several years of research on productivity.
Agile Data Science: Don't use the 'D' word.
Never say you're 'done'!
Data Science needs Agile and Product Management.
Or, 'how to manage expectations under uncertainty.'
Review of recent trends in Data Science.
Topics: data engineering, role definition, project management, experimentation, et al.
2018
Is Your Customer Journey Set Up for Success? Part II.
Practical recommendations for any level of sophistication.
Is Your Customer Journey Set Up for Success? Part I.
Case studies from high performing transformations.
Data Maturity: Technology is Not Enough
Knowing what to do with it is what matters most.
Understanding Your Data Maturity
First steps in a data strategy.
2017
Digital Economy Part III: Technology requires deeper integration into our work lives.
What's changed in our personal lives also needs to change in our 9-5s.
Digital Economy Part II: Aging & unproven learning models are headwinds to growth.
Demographic and structural barriers to progress exist.
Digital Economy Part I: Slow Productivity & Strong Incumbents
In aggregate, things aren't changing as much as times past.
Exploring Digital's Effect on the Economy: Intro
Creating a general framework for current opportunities and challenges.
2016
ML Practice: Exploring the Enron Set
Figuring out what is different about Jeff Skilling.
Playing Around with Docker
Taming the Whale.
Database Primer: Redis
Figuring out what Redis is all about.
Algorithms 101: Walking through the greatest hits.
Gaining intuition with theory and Java.
Database Primer: HBase
Figuring out what HBase is all about.
Database Primer: MongoDB
Figuring out what MongoDB's all about.
A Review of UW's Data Science at Scale course.
A challenging crash course in actionable DS concepts.
Exploring Detroit's Housing Renewal Efforts.
Identifying underlying trends in blight conditions.
A review of the Johns Hopkins Data Science course.
Getting very good at R, in 3-4 week increments.
Building a predictive text..
..model. (Get it?).
Strata San Jose 2016: Embrace and IoT Applications.
Talking babies and technology.
Analyzing NYC high school graduation rates.
Seeing what things were like when I was teaching.
Pig querying a ~0.5TB dataset.
Calculating histograms of the Semantic Web.
Open Data Exploration - SF Crime Rates.
Figuring out where not to go, and when.
Choosing a new database.
A few high-level considerations when updating an architecture.
Development foundations for being data-driven.
A few book recommendations for understanding new developments in software.
2015
Data Weekends: A ML crash course.
Alternate title: 16 hours of Francesco.
How'd I build this thing?
TL;DR: How to spend more time than is necessary on plumbing.
Getting Started
A brief explanation of what I'm trying to do.
Data science programming for n00bies.
With so many things tying data science together... where to start?
Information Pioneers: A Conversation with Ion Stoica.
The CEO of Databricks discusses evolutions in distributed computing.
Legolas, the basketball playing robot.
Its aim was sturdy and true, 8 out of 15 times.
Information Pioneers: A Conversation with Sandeep Rajput.
The Chief Data Scientist of Infosys discusses the importance of learning and listening.
Information Pioneers: A Conversation with Arun Murthy & Tim Hall.
Hortonworks' Chief Architect and Head of PM share their philosophy on open source and changing paradigms around data.
What's your Product Management strategy? (Pt. 3)
The Foundation: Getting started on the right foot.
Information Pioneers: A Conversation with Hal Varian.
Google's Chief Economist talks about how data has shaped his life.
Information Pioneers: A Conversation with Alon Halevy.
Google's Head of Structured Data on visualization and making information accessible.
2014
What's your Product Management strategy? (Pt. 2)
Company fit precedes product-market fit.
Information Pioneers: A Conversation with Julian Mann.
The cofounder of Skybox on the difference between a 'space' business and a 'data' business.
What's your Product Management strategy? (Pt. 1)
Not all PM roles (and not all PMs) are created equal.
Thinking about design and pasta.
Yet another way Andrea's eating habits drive my life.