Author: michaelgat

I had a great time at SCaLE 16x the past four days. SCaLE was one of the first big conferences I went to when I...

SCaLE is special and this worked well for the crowd there. There's a reason I wanted SCaLE to be the first conference where I gave...

I got good feedback on the content if not the delivery, and some additional feedback about how to improve. So I think I'll rework it...

A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much...

Just back from ODSC, which is my first major business travel since the somewhat abortive New Zealand trip....

That makes three people I respect who have recommended the Denver area recently. Not really what I came to Christchurch to find out about myself,...

Technology and Project Management are universal languages and themes, but they express themselves differently in different environments, different economies and different cultures. Those different expressions...

You have to disbelieve the client. When a mid-sized client tells you "this is the solution, when can we do it?" it's not the same...

I was asked to join the team running the National Transportation Data Challenge, not as a data scientist, but as a project manager to help...

I found TensorFlow initially confusing but then quite comfortable. It's odd how after programming in a language like Python for a while, it becomes confusing...