When to Tell Your Boss No
I played the role of “boss” for many years in my career, and I never liked hearing the word no from my team. There are, however, a few occasions where I found i...
Author: bsullins
Life-long data geek, full-time author, and wannabe surfer dude
Silicon Valley’s Biggest Skills Gap (Data Science) is Your Chance to Win
LinkedIn recently published their Workforce Report for 2018 which gives us insights into the US job market from their 150 million members. For us Data Geeks, th...
Why Your Data Presentations Suck & How to Fix Them
I’ve worked with data for over half my life, almost 20 years now.. Throughout my career, I’ve been on teams that drove initiatives and helped guide the business...
Data Science for People in a Hurry
The thing is, every company already has a data science department, even if they don’t know it. In order to understand that though lets’ start with a defi...
More to come…
I know it's been a while since I've written here, but I've been doing a lot of living lately and learning as well. Many things to share in the coming weeks. Sta...
Elasticsearch Essential Training
Welcome from Elasticsearch Essential Training by Ben Sullins Elasticsearch has been widely adopted in search engine platforms for modern web and mobile applicat...
HBase Essential Training
Welcome from HBase Essential Training by Ben Sullins …is now available on LinkedIn Learning: www.linkedin.com/learning/hbase-essential-training and on Lyn...
Python for Data Science Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Welcome from Python for Data Science Tips, Tricks, & Techniques by Ben Sullins Modern work in data science requires skilled professionals versed in analysis...
Hadoop for Data Science Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Welcome from Hadoop for Data Science Tips, Tricks, & Techniques by Ben Sullins Hadoop—the hugely popular big data platform—offers a vast array of capabiliti...
Presto Essentials: Data Science
Netflix and Airbnb both use Presto—an open-source SQL query engine developed by Facebook—for their ever-expanding big data querying needs. In this course, learn...