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DataGotham 2013 is coming! 12 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
Registration is open for DataGotham 2013, our second annual New York data community conference, September 12th and 13th. The core of the conference is a series of brilliant data practitioners telling ...
Speaking: Spend at least 1/3 of the time practicing the talk 5 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
This week we welcome a guest contribution. Matthew Trentacoste is a recovering academic and a computer scientist at Adobe, where he writes software to make pretty pictures. He’s constantly curious, of...
Speaking: Your Slides != Your Talk 15 Jun 2013 | 05:40 am
Slides are the supporting structure for your talk, not the main event. Speak the meaty and informative portion of the presentation out loud and use slides as a backdrop to set either the emotional ton...
Lucene Revolution Keynote: Search is Not a Solved Problem 5 Jun 2013 | 06:24 am
The wonderful folks at LucidWorks have posted the video of my recent Lucene Revolution keynote. The brief idea behind this talk is that search is not a solved problem — there is still a big opportunit...
Speaking: Explaining Technical Information to a Mixed Audience 3 May 2013 | 07:34 pm
It’s a challenge to present deeply technical material to a room of people with varying expertise levels. If you leave it out, you’re abandoning the substance of your presentation. If you focus on it e...
Et tu, Google? 15 Apr 2013 | 08:03 am
In 2008, cuil, a search engine startup, displayed my bio alongside a photo of deceased actress Hilary Mason. In January 2013, Bing confused us, this time putting my photo next to her bio (they fixed i...
Speaking: 1 Kitten per Equation 5 Apr 2013 | 08:11 pm
Use a ratio of one cute cat photo per equation in your talk. This is a concise way of saying that a ratio of one part heavy, technical content to one part light-hearted explanation is ideal. You may h...
Data Engineering 1 Apr 2013 | 08:11 pm
Data engineering is when the architecture of your system is dependent on characteristics of the data flowing through that system. It requires a different kind of engineering process than typical syste...
Speaking: Use the Narrative Arc 29 Mar 2013 | 07:09 pm
If you took a college freshman literature class, you probably remember a diagram like this: …with the x-axis reprenting time, and the y-axis (which, for some infuriating reason, is never labeled) repr...
Why Google Now is Awesome 24 Mar 2013 | 04:27 am
Google Now is an extension to Google’s Android search app that uses all of the data that Google has about you along with what it can guess about your current context to present the information it thin...
