http://www.hilarymason.com Data scientist and hacker. I <3 data and cheeseburgers. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.hilarymason.com/about/#comment-619 Clint Robison Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:25:00 +0000 http://www.hilarymason.com/beta/?page_id=462#comment-619 Listened to you talk on the web at the Web2.0 Expo. VERY interesting. I've been a programmer in government, startup, big corporation, and freelance for 15 years and have always just "handled" pesky data as outlined in the mockup/schematic. Up until just a few days ago, I viewed data as a mundane task that I would have to sanitize and normalize for my program to meet requirements. Your talk changed my view. I think I went from programmer to "data person" overnight. Lately I've been spending alot of time scraping data from local government (arrests, municipal traffic tickets, court information, and traffic data) just for fun and profit. After your talk (and others), I mashed much of that data to Farmer's Almanac data and found a crime spike on full moons! How cool!! Over the past 10 years in Oklahoma City the highest crime rates occurred on hot weekends following a payday/welfare check disbursements on clear evenings with a full moon. This is so exciting to me. Thank you for your talk. Initially I just stopped to see who the hot chic was but then your bitly analytics captured my attention and started to blow my mind. I just wanted to let you know that you are responsible for really tweaking my interest that will likely result in a career change! Take care. Listened to you talk on the web at the Web2.0 Expo. VERY interesting. I’ve been a programmer in government, startup, big corporation, and freelance for 15 years and have always just “handled” pesky data as outlined in the mockup/schematic. Up until just a few days ago, I viewed data as a mundane task that I would have to sanitize and normalize for my program to meet requirements. Your talk changed my view. I think I went from programmer to “data person” overnight. Lately I’ve been spending alot of time scraping data from local government (arrests, municipal traffic tickets, court information, and traffic data) just for fun and profit. After your talk (and others), I mashed much of that data to Farmer’s Almanac data and found a crime spike on full moons! How cool!! Over the past 10 years in Oklahoma City the highest crime rates occurred on hot weekends following a payday/welfare check disbursements on clear evenings with a full moon. This is so exciting to me. Thank you for your talk. Initially I just stopped to see who the hot chic was but then your bitly analytics captured my attention and started to blow my mind. I just wanted to let you know that you are responsible for really tweaking my interest that will likely result in a career change! Take care.

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]]> http://www.hilarymason.com/about/#comment-2 Should you attend Hadoop World? Yes. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:27:26 +0000 http://www.hilarymason.com/beta/?page_id=462#comment-2 [...] received this e-mail via my contact form: I just discovered you via a Google search because I’m highly considering attending this [...] [...] received this e-mail via my contact form: I just discovered you via a Google search because I’m highly considering attending this [...]

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