When I have a bit of down time from client work, I like to experiment with methods and techniques that I don’t expect to come up in client work very often. Generative Adversarial Networks are such a technique. GANs have been a very active area of research since they were […]
Gerrit Goewey
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It’s tricky but the short answer is yes, sorta. There are certain limitations, of course, but with some creative problem solving, you can do quite a bit with this ETL tool.
If you have been following tech news for the last few years you have probably noticed a lot of talk about Machine Learning and how it is changing various industries. Analytics has especially had a lot of talk about it with basically every company in the industry releasing their own […]
If you’re like me or anybody else who travels frequently (or perhaps just lives in a particularly large city), you’ve probably become familiar with yelp, foursquare, or any of a number of different sites and apps designed to help you find somewhere to eat or other goods and services in […]
Writing about Donald Trump—especially nowadays—is likely to incite a heated discussion and lose you friends. Whether or not you’re for or against him and his politics, it’s interesting that so few of the political bigwigs managed to foresee that he would get this far. Specifically, Nate Silver and his statistical […]
It goes without saying that a business can’t operate without a solid budget; the budget sets clear goals of income and expenditure for the entire body of the business, from top to bottom. There are many factors that go into determining your budget cycle length and the frequency of creating […]
I was wandering around YouTube one weekend looking for something mentally stimulating when I came across the Monty Hall problem. For those who are not familiar, the problem is named after the host of the gameshow Let’s Make A Deal. On the show, there was a game where the contestant […]
MySQL is quite possibly the most commonly used database today due to its free license tier making it a very low risk investment. While it is not well geared towards the large queries of reporting and analysis, there may be a need to report directly from an existing MySQL database […]
Anyone who has ever actually attempted it may have noticed that Pentaho Report Designer does not natively accept XMLA as a datasource. It is still possible, and this little guide will step you through how to do this. We used MSSQL 2008R2 with the standard Adventure Works example data loaded. […]
Since CAS is capable of integrating applications made in many different languages, you may want to take the time to get everything you can authenticating through it. Every different language needs a separate client though, which needs to be installed and configured. The official client for PHP is phpCAS. The […]