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October 23, 2014
A Layman's Guide to Cloud Computing
The idea of cloud computing is not a new one. The concept has come and gone through various guises over the years. Consequently "the cloud" can mean many things to many people and this is why it can get very confusing to even seasoned IT professional ...
September 9, 2014
Fluent python interface for Machine Learning
I often say that Machine Learning is like programming in the 60s, you prepare your program, double check everything, hand in your punch cards to the IBM operator, go home and wait. And just like back then, if you had a bug in your code it would mean ...
#machine-learning#pandas#predictive-analytics#python#scikit-learn
August 26, 2014
Naming Conventions in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
In this article I am going to discuss the importance of naming conventions in ML projects. What do I mean by naming conventions? I mainly mean using descriptive ways of labelling features in a data set. What is the reason for this? Speed of experimen ...
July 23, 2014
Wireless Network Rollout for Retail Premises
In the past 9 months we have been involved in a project to roll out Wireless network infrastructure to a large retail chain. I thought I would share some of the technical aspects of the project to help anyone that may be contemplating doing something ...
July 22, 2014
Project Management for a Wifi rollout
Successfully managing a project requires a finely tuned balance of technical knowledge, communication skills, and coordination abilities. Project management is just that - the ability to manage a team of individuals, whom are driven by a common goal, ...
March 23, 2014
Are you still using tapes for your company backups? They were common in the 90's
During the 1990's, tape was the best technology available for backing up and archiving computer data. But today there's a better technology - cloud storage. The cloud is a network of servers that lets companies store and retrieve their data online. L ...