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Adam DrakeIntroduction I was recently having a conversation about metrics and KPIs in a company, with the aim of finding out the things important to the company and ultimately designing an objective function for the business. This objective function is then used to determine which factors are important for the success of the business and therefore can result in the design of a closed-loop control system that can serve as a way to run and optimize the business.
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read more Adam DrakeIn many discussions with people in the industry, the topic of how much data is collected or processed often arises. Although it’s useful for getting a feeling for the scale of data challenges at a company, as a metric for the skills or effectiveness of a data organization it’s a pretty useless topic. However, even when the topic is raised in the context of getting a feel for data challenges at a company, that only makes sense if all the data are necessary for solving problems.
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read more Adam DrakeOverview The short version, is that Data Governance is all of the business concerns surrounding data. This means things like data quality, management, risks, and similar non-technical things. It’s comprised of the kind of concerns that business people would typically have surrounding data, although the quality topic is critically important for machine learning practitioners. For our purposes, I’ll group the concerns generally into quality, management, and risks. Each of those things can be pursued very deeply, but we need only an overview in order to make some key points.
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read more Adam DrakeSalary negotiations are often presented from the perspective of a potential employee, but I rarely read anything regarding strategies for companies who want to do their best to hire a particular candidate. As someone not formally trained in HR, my opinions on the topic have been developed strictly through my experiences. If you’re an HR expert and think I’m crazy then I ask you contact me and help me improve my perspective.
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read more Adam DrakeRecently, I was providing a lecture on stream processing and planned to use the Twitter streaming API as an example. To provide a framework for the attendees, I created the one below. It has been tested with Python 3.4 but as it does not include testing or other things it should only be used as an example.
from threading import Thread from collections import deque from twython import TwythonStreamer from requests.
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