Data analysis, data engineering, cloud computing, and working with data in educational and business contexts.
Teaching beyond the curriculum In the courses that I teach, there is a strong bias towards building technical skills. Specifically, skills related to Data Engineering, Cloud Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence. (disclosure: I’m currently seconded as an AI Project Lead – so my in-classroom work has been reduced to night classes) These are in-demand skills, and…
Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Financial Analytics, AI-Driven Analytics – there seems to be little shortage of different analytical focus points and tools. It may be worth making some effort to understand analytics in general – without the prefix. What are Analytics and how do they relate to Analysis? In the programs I teach, I have…
My role as an Instructor for a Post-Graduate, Fast-Track program involves some challenges and some huge benefits. The challenges are always time, and time, and time – there is a lot to learn in a short period of time. This means that the level of self-efficacy amongst the students has to be extraordinarily high. Fortunately,…
On my YouTube Channel, I’ve decided to do some videos on data movement and analysis over the summer. With school being out, my Teams and Teaching videos are not as needed (don’t worry – I’m filming a number of them for Aug/Sept) – so I wanted to put some videos around technical and data skills…
Check out this course I created over a weekend – still a work in progress, but I’m impressed with the tools and process I used.
Here are a couple of resources around Azure Data Factory and Azure Cloud Analytics. We are absolutely moving to a Cloud-only world with less and less on-premise. At this point, we can still benefit from some on-premise material to teach concepts, but I would like to know how many people are still using those tools…
Over the holidays, I’ve decided to create a hands-on lab that builds out a case-study on using an IoT device to collect data and automate behaviour in Azure Cloud. The idea is to build an end-to-end walk-though from needs identification to decision-support. The intent being to have students build an actual solution that let’s them…
This is a book I mentioned in class – it’s a good introduction. https://amzn.to/3HUzIt9
This is a book I was discussing in a recent class. It’s a good read and I would recommend it. https://amzn.to/3cNdon3
