The 2023 fiscal year has started, with the potential to focus on new budgets across U.S. government agencies. It is also the beginning of what I like to call “candy corn” objectives, in which we perform a lot of busy work across
Author: JGoldfed
Long-standing businesses often have reputations regarding their culture, brand, and style. They market products to audiences with familiar slogans, treat their employees a certain way, and showcase their past achievements to talk about the future. But every so often, the world shifts
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its 11th month, many of us remain sheltered at home, no longer going to the office or socializing with coworkers. We can argue, however, that we are not in complete isolation. We still have our emails, phone
Tom Breur wrote an article entitiled “ETL is Dying” in which he summarizes causes for the demise of the Extaction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) process. Two reasons were the following: (1) ETL packages are simply an abstraction of the architecture, and could
Several years ago, I was sitting at a conference table with a group of federal employees to discuss their data analytics and reporting requirements. The reports we were building were part of a data warehouse with more than 100 valid measurements. “What
Recently my teenage daughter’s iPhone was out of memory, and she asked if I could format it. That wasn’t an issue, but when I went to create the backup, I noticed something strange. Over 3GB was being occupied by over 800 photos and
I recently bought an Amazon Echo, one of those Pringle-can shaped devices that allows you to state a command and, through the magic of smart home technology, follows-up by doing whatever action you’ve programmed into it. After unwrapping the box and setting everything
Huge disclaimer: I was not a Bruce Springsteen fan, nor did I intend to put myself in the same category as those folks I met at last week’s concert who literally have followed this rock legend and the E-Street Band for some four decades. Nope, definitely
Well, it’s November and with the air politically charged, we all know what that means. Yup, it’s time for companies to start prepping data in time for the new year. And there’s a lot of data, isn’t there? According to one estimate,
My family and I recently flew 2800 miles out to San Francisco for a weekend family event. We booked a room in a hotel not too far from Chinatown and, following a long day of sightseeing, I decided to work out in