Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

There have been tons and tons of implementations around the world of my wonderfully profitable See-Think-Do-Care business framework. This is immensely gratifying. Over the last year, I've also worked with many companies to drive new and rapid innovation in their digital strategies using the framework. In the process, I've learned a whole lot more, evolved my thinking and refined the nuances.

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Data Science and Beyond

JULY 30, 2015

Over the past year, I’ve been using Parse‘s free backend-as-a-service and web hosting to serve BCRecommender (music recommendation service) and Price Dingo (now-closed shopping comparison engine). The main lesson: You get what you pay for. Despite some improvements, Parse remains very unreliable, and any time saved by using their APIs and SDKs tends to be offset by having to work around the restrictions of their sandboxed environment.

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Data Processing 52

In(tegrate) the Clouds

JULY 16, 2015

I recently participated in an online web conference called Cloudcon 2015: Integration and Web APIs where I reviewed 5 signs you need better cloud integration: You’re Struggling with the Integrator’s Dilemma. You Have Unintegrated Integration: You Thought Cloud = API Utopia. You Still Have Swivel Chair Integration. You’re Considering Going Back to On-Prem Due to Diminishing SaaS Returns.

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Darkhorse

JULY 21, 2015

Recently the Alberta government hosted Apps for Alberta - a competition using the province’s open data. Being an Alberta-based data visualization firm, we felt encouraged, perhaps even duty-bound, to enter. So we did. We managed to pull together a couple submissions, the first of which is a look at high school grades in the province. In an ideal world , you start by asking: What question am I helping to answer?

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Jim Harris

JULY 14, 2015

Awakened by the force of the promotion of the film franchise’s new movie coming out in a time not too long from now in a theater not too far away, Star Wars has been on my mind a lot lately. In particular, the iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back when Luke Skywalker’s Jedi training is disrupted by his premonition of his friends in pain in a city in the clouds keeps floating back to me.

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Nutanix

JULY 22, 2015

It’s 4:45 pm on a Friday before a long weekend, your manager stops by your cubicle and has a last minute task for the team that needs to be done before everyone leaves for the day.

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Management 20

Data Science and Beyond

JULY 5, 2015

This page summarises the deep learning resources I’ve consulted in my album cover classification project. Tutorials and blog posts Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition Stanford course notes: an excellent resource, very up-to-date and useful, despite still being a work in progress DeepLearning.net’s Theano-based tutorials: not as up-to-date as the Stanford course notes, but still a good introduction to some of the theory and general Theano usage Lasagne’s documen

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Nutanix

JULY 22, 2015

It’s 4:45 pm on a Friday before a long weekend, your manager stops by your cubicle and has a last minute task for the team that needs to be done before everyone leaves for the day.

Management 20

Management 20

Nutanix

JULY 12, 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Enterprise 20

Nutanix

JULY 12, 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Enterprise 20

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

Management

Jim Harris

JULY 13, 2015

Background: “Apathy is the enemy of data quality”. I began work on data quality in the late 1980s at the great Bell Laboratories. We worked in partnership with a couple of AT&T groups and made rapid strides. The AT&T groups that applied our methods made order-of-magnitude improvements and, in so doing, saved tens of millions of dollars per year.

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Data Quality Data-driven Big Data Consulting 56

Jim Harris

JULY 29, 2015

Brevity, according to Shakespeare, is the soul of wit. When it comes to the language used to describe the current and future state of information technology (IT), brevity seems to be the soul of it as well. Consider, for example, how much of IT is encapsulated into a single word— Cloud. To cloud or not to cloud is no longer the question. The question is how to cloud, and its multiple choice answers are also single words: Public, Private, Hybrid.

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