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Adam DrakeWhen building data products, often the end result is either a recurring report or an API which allows for an interface with other services. In these cases, the product might be run by a cron job, or even manually, depending on the situation. When the product is part of (more frequently, at the end of) a larger data processing pipeline, this can become inefficient or problematic since steps earlier in the pipeline can cause the product to supply incorrect information or fail altogether.
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read more Adam DrakeIn recent years, and for a variety of reasons, functional programming has become an increasingly popular topic. Languages like Haskell, Scala, Clojure, and others, have had huge gains in popularity and consequently there have been many large-scale projects written in some of these languages. There has also been increasing pressure to move programming more towards the rigor of mathematics, something which I strongly support.
One thing which could get more attention in the context of functional programming is the concept of Total Functional Programming, which uses the concepts of total functions combined with specific types of recursion in order to guarantee that all your programs terminate.
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read more Adam DrakeI recently finished a book called Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal. The book overall expresses a nice framework for considering products and services, whether or not they should be habit-forming in the first place, and if so how to go about making that happen. The framework is very useful in that it allows for organizations to have a common language they can use to speak about their product and how they should modify or improve it.
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read more Adam DrakeIntroduction I didn’t have much time for this competition, so didn’t invest much into feature engineering, creating ensembles or other things. As I participated in the Avazu competition as well, which included the use of tinrtgu’s now-famous code, I decided to use the same approach here.
Background The overall goal of the competition is to analyze user behavior in order to generate a model for recommending ads to be shown in front of users, with the success metric being whether or not the user clicks on the ad.
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read more Adam DrakeIntroduction I gave a talk at the CDO Summit in Singapore on 18 June and thought it may be worthwhile to address some of the points and provide additional detail on the slides I used.
Sections below are listed by slide content and provide extra explanation.
Kardashev Scale This is simply applying the Kardashev Scale of technological advancement to the advancement of data usage in organizations. For more detail see the article I wrote on the Kardashev Scale of Data Maturity.
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